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patentably

adv

Etymology

From patentable + -ly.

  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 patentable — “patent + able”
  7. suffixed as patentably — “patentable + ly”

Definitions

  1. To a patentable degree

    • The CREATE Act will now permit patents with patentably indistinct claims to be separately owned, but remain valid.
    • If you included more than one embodiment and if the overall appearance or scope of the each embodiment is patentably distinct, a restriction will be required even though all embodiments are functionally the same.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for patentably. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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