patent application
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- noun
- /ˈpætənt ˌæplɪˈkeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
solicitud de patente
- The University of Hawaii has filed a patent application for the hot-forced-air equipment.
- file patent application
- submit a patent application
- patent application pending
He had patent applications, all of this he was going to open source.
- He had patent applications, all of this he was going to open source.
- And look, the amount of early stage research that's being cited in patent applications is now has been growing profoundly.
Examples
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Their laws award a patent to the first who filed a patent application.
Academic text (1994) -
For instance, the intellectual property firm is expected to handle everything from routine patent applications to infringement litigation.
Academic text (2004) -
To date, at least three patent applications have been made for cell lines developed from this blood.
Academic text (1996) -
Filing at least one patent application every three years was accepted as meeting the requirement.
Fiction book (2000) -
Figure 7 shows the strong growth over the 1990s in patent applications filed by inventors outside their country of residence.
Academic text (1999) -
Behind the scenes, the USPTO is also rejecting more patent applications than ever before.
Blog text (28) -
Subsequently, the American Inventor's Protection Act of 1999 decreed that all patent applications must be published within 18 months of filing.
Academic text (2004) -
Suitors value patents and patent applications that are filed early with broad disclosures.
Academic text (2011) -
The latest patent application jointly filed by ARS and Engelhard covers this use of kaolin.
Academic text (2000) -
The office received more than 250,000 patent applications in the past year alone.
How Advanced
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'patent' names the intellectual property right and 'application' is a written request, so together they denote a request to obtain patent rights. Similar constructions exist across many languages (e.g., Spanish 'solicitud de patente', French 'demande de brevet'), so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Patent application comes from old times when a king or ruler gave a public paper called a patent to show someone had special rights, and an application was the act of asking for that paper. So a patent application is an official request to get legal rights for a new invention.