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PATENT OF INVENTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does patent of invention mean?
• PATENT OF INVENTION (noun)
The noun PATENT OF INVENTION has 1 sense:
1. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
Familiarity information: PATENT OF INVENTION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
patent; patent of invention
Hypernyms ("patent of invention" is a kind of...):
document; papers; written document (writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature))
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