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reverse infringements

reverse infringements is the plural of reverse infringement.

Meaning of reverse infringement

Noun

reverse infringement (countable and uncountable, plural reverse infringements)

  1. A situation where a prior disclosure (such as prior art) anticipates a claimed invention, effectively rendering the prior art an infringement of the patent if the patent were valid.
    • His Honour held that the test of anticipation or want of novelty was that of reverse infringement and the guidelines in Hill v. Evans.1990, Adelaide Law Review Association (contributor), An Annual Survey of Australian Law, page 306

Questions about reverse infringements

What is reverse infringements the plural of?
Reverse infringements is the plural of reverse infringement.

Words near reverse infringements in the dictionary

  1. reverse image searches
  2. reverse implied odds
  3. reverse import
  4. reverse imports
  5. reverse infringement
  6. reverse infringements
  7. reverse intaglio
  8. reverse intaglios
  9. reverse integration
  10. reverse isekai
  11. reverse isekais

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Adapted from Wiktionary: reverse infringements (page history and authors); reverse infringement (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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