to patent an invention
111patent right — noun the right granted by a patent; especially the exclusive right to an invention (Freq. 1) • Topics: ↑law, ↑jurisprudence • Hypernyms: ↑legal right …
112Patent and Trademark Office — the US government department that decides who should be given patents (= official documents that give people the right to make, use or sell an invention, and stop other people from copying them). * * * …
113invention — in•ven•tion [[t]ɪnˈvɛn ʃən[/t]] n. 1) the act of inventing 2) law U.S. Patent Law. a new process, machine, improvement, etc., that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius 3) anything invented or devised 4) the power or… …
114invention — /ɪnˈvɛnʃən / (say in venshuhn) noun 1. the act of inventing. 2. (in patent law) the conception of an idea and the means or apparatus by which the result is obtained. 3. anything invented or devised. 4. the exercise of imaginative or creative… …
115patent — A legal permission to hold exclusive right for a defined period of time to manufacture, use or sell an invention …
116invention — n. 1 the process of inventing. 2 a thing invented; a contrivance, esp. one for which a patent is granted. 3 a fictitious story. 4 inventiveness. 5 Mus. a short piece for keyboard, developing a simple idea. Etymology: ME f. L inventio (as INVENT) …
117patent application — noun an application for sole rights to an invention • Hypernyms: ↑application …
118Glossary of patent legal concepts — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
119Japanese patent law — is based on the first to file principle and is mainly given force by the Patent Act (特許法 Tokkyohō ) of Japan which consists of 204 articles. Article 2 defines an invention as the highly advanced creation of technical ideas by which a law of… …
120Claim (patent) — Patent claims are the part of a patent or patent application that defines the scope of protection granted by the patent. The claims define, in technical terms, the extent of the protection conferred by a patent, or the protection sought in a… …
