unpatentable
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- adjective
- /ʌnˈpætəntəbl/
- Specialized
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no patentable
- Ideas that lack sufficient detail and implementation are usually deemed unpatentable under patent law.
Examples
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Many common mathematical formulas are considered unpatentable because they are basic principles of nature.
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Pure ideas are unpatentable.
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All eight claims were still found unpatentable.
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All of these problems should be fixed, or better yet, just make software unpatentable.
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All software is math; therefore, it is a law of nature and is unpatentable.
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Under the Constitution, Congress has the power to clarify the law right quick by passing a bill explicitly making software unpatentable.
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Second, looking to the limits of patent law may help identify key concepts that lie within the realm of "science," precisely because they are unpatentable.
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One giant step forward came in 1980 when the U.S. Supreme Court held in Diamond v. Chakrabarty, 447 U.S. 303, that patent laws were made to cover "anything under the sun made by man," and that an invention was not unpatentable just because it was alive.
Academic text (1994) -
Inventions that merely describe a concept without a practical application remain unpatentable.
Synonyms
Laws do not give copyright or patent rights for it
Antonyms
How Patentable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
unpatentable = patentable (transparent) = un + patent + able
Formed by adding the negative prefix 'un-' to 'patentable' with a straightforward negation meaning.
Etymology
Unpatentable breaks into un- 'not', patent which came from a word that meant 'open' and is now used for a legal right or certificate for an invention, and -able 'can be'. So unpatentable means 'not able to be given a patent', which is why we use it for ideas or designs that cannot be legally protected.