patent law

noun

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.

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nounpatent law (uncountable)
  1. uncountablelawThe 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
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