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patentee

noun

Etymology

From patent + -ee.

  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 patentee — “patent + ee”

Definitions

  1. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent

    One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent; a person, group, company etc. that has been granted a patent.

    • The patentee in his specifications speaks of triphenylguanidine and compares its operation as an accelerator with that guanidine, the utility of which as an accelerator he claims to have discovered, called diphenylguanidine.
    • Probably the patentee, whilst fully realising the need for drivers receiving clear signals, did not fully appreciate the primary object of the signalling system.

The neighborhood

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