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81Patent office — A patent office is a governmental or intergovernmental organization which controls the issue of patents. List of patent offices For a list of patent offices and their websites, please see [http://www.wipo.int/directory/en/urls.jsp this list]… …
82Patent portfolio — A patent portfolio is a collection of patents owned by a single entity, such as an individual or corporation. The patents may be related or unrelated. Patent applications may also be regarded as included in a patent portfolio. The monetary… …
83Patent thicket — A patent thicket is a dense web of overlapping intellectual property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology. [ Carl Shapiro, [http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/thicket.pdf… …
84patent — The grant of an exclusive right to exploit an invention. In the UK patents are granted by the Crown through the Patent Office, which is part of the Department of Trade and Industry. An applicant for a patent (usually from the inventor or the… …
85patent — I. adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from Latin patent , patens, from present participle of patēre to be open more at fathom Date: 14th century 1. a. open to public inspection used chiefly in the phrase letters patent b. (1) …
86patent cliff — n. A sharp drop in revenue that a company experiences when a lucrative patent expires. Example Citations: Lilly is already facing the biggest patent cliff in the industry. Five of its six leading products face generic competition in the next four …
87patent — pat•ent [[t]ˈpæt nt[/t]] for 10,12 15 [[t]ˈpeɪt [/t]] esp. brit. [[t]ˈpeɪt [/t]] n. adj. v. ent•ed, ent•ing. n. 1) law the exclusive right granted to an inventor to manufacture or sell an invention for a specified number of years 2) law an… …
88Patent classification — A patent classification is a way the examiners of patent offices or other people arrange documents, such as patent applications, disclosing inventions according to the technical features of the inventions. They arrange documents using a patent… …
89Patent Pending (band) — Infobox musical artist Name = Patent Pending Img capt = Background = group or band Origin = Mount Sinai, New York, USA Genre = Pop punk Post hardcore Years active = 2001–present Label = We Put Out Records URL =… …
90Patent Law Treaty — The Patent Law Treaty (PLT) is a patent law multilateral treaty concluded on June 1, 2000 in Geneva, Switzerland, by 53 States and one intergovernmental organization, the European Patent Organisation. Its aim is to harmonize formal procedures… …
