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unpatent

verb

Etymology

From un- + patent.

  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. prefixed as unpatent — “un + patent”

Definitions

  1. To release from a legal patent.

    • […] unpatenting inventions. But he saw some decided advantages in publication patents if limited to agencies of the government. He, therefore, moved to amend by deleting "by an applicant" and inserting […]
    • […] unpatenting of a guild secret, and its concomitant professional recording for mass consumption.

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