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patent law en · NOUN

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  1. (uncountable) The body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.
    • Discovery, commonly, is as well applied to the finding out of any old thing as of a new one; while invention, in patent law, relates especially to absolute origination. 1895, International Correspondence Schools, Instruction Paper With Examination Questions, page 5: