Meanings
- not comparableNot a patent
The exclusivity period of a product on the market can also be extended through nonpatent exclusivities.
2013, Joanna T. Brougher, Intellectual Property and Health Technologies: Balancing ..., →ISBN, page 1202 more examples
The United States Patent Office classified search files currently consist of about 18 million United States patent documents, about 12 million foreign patent documents, and about 2 million documents of nonpatent literature.
1995, Fred K. Carr, Patents Handbook: A Guide for Inventors and Researchers to ..., →ISBNNPR is a simple count of the number of references in a patent application to a wide variety of nonpatent publications, including scientific papers and articles, brochures, books, standards, documents, patent disclosure bulletins, and so on.
2003, Mark Hirschey, Tech Stock Valuation: Investor Psychology and Economic ..., →ISBN, page 164
Origin
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