patent specification

collocation in English

meaningsofpatentandspecification

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patent
adjective
uk
/ˈpeɪ.tənt/us
/ˈpæt.ənt/
formal
very ...
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specification
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌspes.ɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌspes.ə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
a detailed description of how something should be done, ...
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(Definition ofpatentandspecificationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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A translation of the fullpatentspecificationwould only be required if there were a dispute over the rights created by the patent.
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The examination of a completepatentspecificationis very expensive, laborious and onerous.
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At present the information contained in apatentspecificationis not made available to the public until the legal requirements for the grant of a patent have been met.
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Secondly, an applicant has, since 1939, been allowed to make a request to postpone acceptance, and hence publication of hispatentspecification, until the end of the statutory maximum period.
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A description of an invention in a patent is called apatentspecification.
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An application consists of a description of the invention (the "patentspecification"), together with official forms and correspondence relating to the application.
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Thepatentspecificationhas three parts: the disclosure, the claims, and the abstract.
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The principal question in that case was the extent to which a court should resort to thepatentspecification in seeking to ascertain the proper scope of its claims.
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The description is called apatentspecification.
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It often happens that patent specifications are kept in the possession of a company for no reason whatever: they just happen to be there.
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The inventions and the crops to which they relate are specified in the patent specifications.
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This charge put on patent specifications has gone up from £100 to £140 a year.
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Today, the stock amounts to about 210,000 volumes of periodicals, 100,000 volumes of patent specifications and 70,000 textbooks.
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In the past there was quite a strong case for saying that industry would learn a lot, and did learn a lot, by searching through patent specifications.
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According to the patent specifications the spot diameter is around 10 micrometres.
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Approximately 8,000 journals, technical reports, dissertations, conference proceedings, and new books, in any of 50 languages, are monitored yearly, as are patent specifications from 27 countries and two international organizations.
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He was part of the family business of assisting inventors in developing new machines and preparing patent specifications, and for publishers preparing descriptive texts and drawings.
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