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patentable

patentable

4 5.9
Able to be legally protected as a new, useful invention
  • adjective
  • /ˈpætəntəbl/
  • Specialized
translation icon : patentable
  • Methods of doing business are patentable in the United States.
  • patentable subject matter
  • patentable inventions
  • patentable subject

You have to create a process, a process that is is patentable.

Examples

  • When software patents first issued, there was concern about whether software should be patentable.

    Academic text (2007)
  • The first is the recognition that computer software is patentable.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Perhaps certain methods of testing for it may be patentable; perhaps not.

    Blog text (8)
  • Some people argue that information in the public domain should not be patentable.

    Academic text (1996)
  • In light of these considerations, can it still be argued that legal strategies should be patentable?

    Academic text (2007)
  • The court sought to distinguish between fundamental principles, which are not patentable, and practical applications of fundamental principles, which can be patentable.

    Academic text (2009)
  • Patent law has long distinguished between discovery and invention, holding that only the latter is patentable subject matter.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Since then, public universities are entitled to the inventions of their staff, and researchers are obliged to report any patentable inventions before publishing them.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The university's ad hoc approach to dealing with patentable inventions was not seriously debated until the mid-1950s.

    Academic text (2016)
  • The new medical technique developed by the researchers is patentable because it is both innovative and beneficial.

Synonyms

protectable
vspatentable
  • Specialized
1 6.3

Can get legal rights like a patent or copyright

is limited to eligibility for a specific legal right requiring novelty and usefulness

How Patentable

patented
  • Specialized
5.1
patentable
  • Specialized
4 5.9
ineligible
26 5.0
unpatentable
  • Specialized
1 7.4

Surface Forms

patentable positive

Morphology

patentable = patent (transparent) = patent + able

Formed by the productive suffix '-able' added to 'patent' meaning 'capable of being patented', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Patentable comes from patent, which once meant 'open' and was used in official papers called 'letters patent' that gave someone a public right. So something patentable is an idea or invention you can officially claim and protect as yours.