Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The party that possesses or has been granted a patent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who holds a patent; one to whom a patent is granted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One to whom a
grant is made, or a privilege secured, bypatent .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the inventor to whom a patent is issued
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Examples
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In both cases, the court indicated that being a direct competitor of the patentee was a substantial factor in granting the injunction.
E.D. Texas Issues Permanent Injunction in Visto v. Seven Networks Peter Zura 2006
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Patent Office do not show whether a patentee is a Negro or a
Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp
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Gideon Parchomovsky and Peter Siegelman argue that the intersection is good, because the patentee will price lower-than-monopoly during the patent period to create brand loyalty, and after the patent expires people will continue to pay the slightly-higher price.
Archive 2009-02-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Agenda: ban reverse payments in patent settlements used to delay the entry of competing generic drugs against the (ex) patentee.
Archive 2009-06-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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The underlying improper conduct must be shown by clear and convincing evidence; the burden is on the accused infringer to show that the patentee knew or should have known that the suit was baseless.
Archive 2009-04-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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So the more patents that are “out there,” the greater are the costs involved in negotiating for a license from every patentee whom the new inventor may arguably be infringing.
Becker-Posner on Drug Patents, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Allow patentee to recoup investments, but allow preferential pricing for a specialized group, and prevent arbitrage.
Archive 2009-03-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009
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Amazon. com became the most visible business method patentee with its one-click patent for a service that allows repeat visitors to move directly to the virtual checkout with one click (completing payment and shipping information in the process).
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Most newspaper readers have learned merely that he is the patentee of a locomotive boiler of some peculiar construction.
Origin of Rhodes Scholarship, Defending Marconi, Rich Inventors 2008
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I enclose herewith a circular giving a description of the ‘Gatling Gun,’ of which I am inventor and patentee.
The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010
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