patentors

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

   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