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21patent — the granting by a government of monopoly rights to the owner of an invention to manufacture and sell it for a certain number of years, conditional on the owner being willing to immediately reveal the ideas incorporated in the invention, so that… …
22Glossary of patent legal concepts — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
23First to file and first to invent — are legal concepts that define who has the right to the grant of a patent for an invention. The first to file system is used in the majority of countries, with the notable exception of the United States, which operates a first to invent system. [ …
24file wrapper — file wrap·per n: a written record in a patent office of the application and negotiations for a patent preceding the issuance of the patent see also file wrapper estoppel at estoppel 1 Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
25File format — A file format is a particular way that information is encoded for storage in a computer file. Since a disk drive, or indeed any computer storage, can store only bits, the computer must have some way of converting information to 0s and 1s and vice …
26Patent — Ein Patent ist ein hoheitlich erteiltes gewerbliches Schutzrecht für eine Erfindung. Der Inhaber des Patents ist berechtigt, anderen die Benutzung der Erfindung zu untersagen. Das deutsche Wort wurde im 17. Jahrhundert aus dem französischen… …
27file — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 collection of papers ADJECTIVE ▪ bulging, bulky (BrE), thick ▪ box (BrE), card, lever arch (BrE), Manila, paper …
28patent — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun VERB + PATENT ▪ apply for, file ▪ In 1843 Bain filed a patent for his fax machine. ▪ get, obtain, take out ▪ pro …
29file — /faɪl/ noun 1. a cardboard holder for documents, which can fit in the drawer of a filing cabinet ● Put these letters in the customer file. ● Look in the file marked ‘Scottish sales’. 2. documents kept for reference ♦ to place something on file to …
30file — 1. n. & v. n. 1 a folder, box, etc., for holding loose papers, esp. arranged for reference. 2 a set of papers kept in this. 3 Computing a collection of (usu. related) data stored under one name. 4 a series of issues of a newspaper etc. in order.… …
