patent application

collocation in English

meaningsofpatentandapplication

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patent
noun
uk
/ˈpeɪ.tənt/us
/ˈpæt.ənt/
the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number ...
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application
noun
uk
/ˌæp.lɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌæp.ləˈkeɪ.ʃən/
an official request for something, usually ...
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(Definition ofpatentandapplicationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofpatent application

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This means that an invention cannot be disclosed anywhere in the world prior to apatentapplicationbeing lodged at a relevant patent office.
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Exclusivity is limited to the 20 years from the date apatentapplicationis filed.
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Table 4 shows the two inventions generated by genetic programming for which apatentapplicationhas been filed.
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If the lawyer and the inventor are satisfied with their claims, they then file theirpatentapplication.
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Consequently, a practical utility for a gene or gene fragment must be included in thepatentapplicationif a claim to the gene is to issue to patent.
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The minimum obligations for pharmaceuticals are first, that pharmaceutical products and micro-organisms are patentable for up until 20 years from the date the inventor files for thepatentapplication.
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The new directive specifically requires that the industrial application, or utility, of a sequence or a partial sequence of a human gene must be disclosed in thepatentapplication.
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Generally, such information is limited to the protection of intellectual property rights for which apatentapplicationis being made.
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On the cost ofpatentapplication, it is very striking.
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We therefore ask for this monopoly position, which is in nobody's interest, to be opposed and thepatentapplicationto be rejected.
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Such information is limited to the protection of intellectual property rights for which apatentapplicationis being made.
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A typicalpatentapplicationcontains much description and a comparatively short claim.
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The second, largest, group is made up of those who make apatentapplicationfor reasons of vanity.
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Furthermore, if thepatentapplicationis rejected or subsequently lapsed he would have lost the ability to enforce the design right.
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For a long time now such words have been understood and used to mean the step of filing a complete specification on apatentapplication.
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Next we have a further point to raise which has to do with the rights of an inventor on early publication of apatentapplication.
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We cannot aspire to be the most competitive economy in the world if we do not find workable solutions forpatentapplicationand protection.
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I understand that a recentpatentapplicationin respect of a signal to prevent the copying of computer programs was declared secret.
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It seems to me that if anything needs skilled advice it is apatentapplication.
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Although, once established, a product may be protected by patent, information might have to be passed under these proposals before thepatentapplicationhas gone through.
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