patentability
- noun
- /ˌpætəntəˈbɪləti/
- Specialized
- One of the most important things in obtaining a patent is doing a patentability search to see whether or not there is any "prior art" already out there.
- test for patentability
Examples
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The university then assesses the invention's patentability and economic potential, provides services, and covers all costs involved in the patenting process.
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Before applying for a patent, inventors must assess the patentability of their creation to ensure it meets legal requirements.
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The patentability of these and other applications is now being reviewed.
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The Supreme Court has held that the patentability of a work does not bar the work from copyright protection.
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In that case, the court wrote that "The Patent Act sets out the conditions of patentability in three sections."
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The federal government has taken a new position on the patentability of human genes: Genes are products of nature that should not be eligible for a patent.
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Novelty and nonobviousness are two tests for patentability of an invention, but not the only tests.
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The trials of the hot-blast patent are remembered in the legal world as producing a precedent concerning the patentability of subject matter.
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Some inventions face a newly imposed test for patentability even if they meet the familiar and customary requirements of being novel and non-obvious.
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Courts have thus employed differing patentability screening tests for process inventions encompassing fundamental principles.
Academic text (2009)
How Patentable
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Surface Forms
Morphology
patentability = patentable (transparent) = patent + able + ity
Formed by regular derivation patent → patentable → patentability; learners who know 'patent' and the productive suffixes '-able' and '-ity' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
The word patentability comes from patent (from a Latin root meaning 'to be open') and the parts -able and -ity, where -able shows 'ability'. A patent was once an 'open' official letter that gave someone a right, so patentability means an invention's ability to be officially recognized and given legal protection.