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nonpatentability

noun

Etymology

From non- + patentability.

  1. derived from patentes lettres — “document granting an office, privilege, right, etc., or making a decree”
  2. derived from lettres patentes
  3. derived from lettres patentes
  4. derived from patente
  5. inherited from patent — “document granting an office, property, right, title, etc.; document granting permission, licence; papal indulgence, pardon”
  6. suffixed as patentability — “patent + ability”
  7. prefixed as nonpatentability — “non + patentability”

Definitions

  1. The characteristic of being nonpatentable

    The characteristic of being nonpatentable; inability to be patented.

    • The Solicitor of the Patent Office argued before the CCPA that Benson’s holding of nonpatentability as to the computer program in that case was controlling here.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA