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unpatenting

unpatenting is the present participle and gerund of unpatent.

Meaning of unpatent

Verb

unpatent (third-person singular simple present unpatents, present participle unpatenting, simple past and past participle unpatented)

  1. (rare, transitive) To release from a legal patent.
    • […] unpatenting inventions. But he saw some decided advantages in publication patents if limited to agencies of the government. He, therefore, moved to amend by deleting "by an applicant" and inserting […]1962, American Bar Association. Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, Summary of Proceedings (page 68)

Questions about unpatenting

What is unpatenting the present participle and gerund of?
Unpatenting is the present participle and gerund of unpatent.

Words near unpatenting in the dictionary

  1. unpatching
  2. unpatent
  3. unpatentability
  4. unpatentable
  5. unpatented
  6. unpatenting
  7. unpatents
  8. unpaternal
  9. unpaternally
  10. unpathed
  11. unpathetic

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unpatenting (page history and authors); unpatent (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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