Definition of Patentee

1. Noun. The inventor to whom a patent is issued.

Generic synonyms: Artificer, Discoverer, Inventor
Derivative terms: Patent, Patent

Definition of Patentee

1. n. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.

Definition of Patentee

1. Noun. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patentee

1. one that holds a patent [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patentee

patent log
patent medicine
patent of invention
patent pool
patent pools
patent right
patent system
patent thicket
patent thickets
patent troll
patent trolls
patentabilities
patentability
patentable
patented
patentee (current term)
patentees
patentese
patentholder
patentholders
patenting
patentless
patentlike
patently
patentor
patentors
patents
pater
pater familias
patera

Literary usage of Patentee

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"(а) The intention of the patentee is to be sought in giving construction to the ... If the patentee had restricted his claim to an exact degree of heat, ..."

2. The Law of Patents for Useful Inventions by William Callyhan Robinson (1890)
"The primary legal owner of a patent is the patentee, and until it is assigned or granted by him, or at his death is vested in his administrator or executor, ..."

3. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent, Charles M. Barnes (1884)
"Nor if the process claimed by the patentee fails in one point, doee it fail in ... 83, allows the patentee to enter a disclaimer of any part of the title or ..."

4. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1889)
"As against a patentee, an applicant must show conclusively that he reduced to practice and completed form prior to invention by the patentee. ..."

5. Key and Elphinstone's Compendium of Precedents in Conveyancing by Howard Warburton Elphinstone, Thomas Key, William Hew Coltman (1897)
"Power to patentee to inspect factories. Licensee not to use invention otherwise than according to licence. patentee to give licensee or ..."

6. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1912)
"The Supreme Court of the United States will not refrain from ruling that a patentee may sell a patented machine subject to restrictions as to its use, ..."

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