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91Patent Lens — The Patent Lens is an online patent search service, by CAMBIA, an independent, international non profit organisation. It allows free searching of over 8 million documents, including United States patents and applications, Australian patents and… …
92Patent of precedence — A patent of precedence is a grant to an individual by letters patent of a higher social or professional position than the precedence to which his ordinary rank entitles him.Historical user in the English legal professionThe principal instance in… …
93Patent ambush — A patent ambush is where a member of a standardisation body withholds information about patents it owns, has pending, or intends to file during the development of a proposed standard and subsequently claims them to be relevant to the standard as… …
94Patent troll — Un patent troll (troll des brevets) est, dans le domaine de la propriété intellectuelle, et plus précisément dans celui de la concession de licences (Licensing), le nom donné à une compagnie ou à une personne morale ou physique, qui utilise la… …
95Patent Reexamination — A process conducted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on a patent that already has been issued in order to verify the claims and scope of the patent. A patent reexamination is usually brought about by the original patent holder when …
96patent — /ˈpeɪtnt / (say paytnt), /ˈpætnt/ (say patnt) noun 1. a government grant to an inventor, for a stated period of time, conferring a monopoly of the exclusive right to make, use, and vend an invention or discovery. 2. an invention, process, etc.,… …
97Patent theatre — The patent theatres were the theatres that were licensed to perform spoken drama after the English Restoration of Charles II in 1660. Other theatres were prohibited from performing such serious drama, but were permitted to show comedy, pantomime… …
98Patent Act of 1790 — The Patent Act of 1790 was the United States first patent statute. [ [http://www.myoutbox.net/popch05.htm Kenneth W. Dobyns, The Patent Office Pony; A History of the Early Patent Office] ] It was entitled An Act to promote the progress of useful… …
99Patent Share — The percentage share of a universe of patents owned or created by one subset of that universe. This term usually applies to a comparative share between nations. Patent share has been subdivided not only across nations, but within industry groups… …
100Patent safe — The patent safe game, was much practiced during the late Civil War in and around New York City. It was carried on principally in the neighborhood of the Hudson River Depot, and the complaints of the victims, to the police, were loud and numerous …
