patentor

Noun

patentor (plural patentors)

1. One who obtains a legal patent.
   • Among Japanese workers who had obtained patents, a "super group" of patentors was observable, with more than half of all patentors obtaining ten or more patents. In the United States, two-thirds of patentors had obtained only[…]1995, International Research Group on R&D Management, The R&D Workers: Managing Innovation in Britain, Germany, Japan, and the United States, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 126
   • Single patentors patent over short spells (three years maximum) producing few patents. This group comprises 71 per cent of the sample (64 per cent in Geroski et al., 1997) and produced 1,146 patents per firm.2003, Paolo Saviotti, Applied Evolutionary Economics: New Empirical Methods and Simulation Techniques, Edward Elgar Publishing

   Synonyms:

   patenter

2. One who grants a legal patent.
   • In that case the whole question was, whether the patentee was entitled to the patent? In ours the whole question is, whether the State, the patentor, had any title to impart by patent?1856, “Brown vs. Shilling”, in Oliver Miller, editor, Maryland Reports […], volume 9, published 1857, page 78
   • Besides, this record shows that all the proceedings upon which the patent issued were entirely ex parte, and were binding upon no one except the patentor and patentee.1862, “Leese v. Clark”, in Curtis J. Hillyer, editor, Reports of Cases Determined in the Supreme Court of California, volume 20, published 1863, page 409