patent law

noun

Definitions

  1. The body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a…

    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.

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