Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

patent law

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.16 in modern English

Syllables: paten-t law
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Discovery, commonly, is as well applied to the finding out of any old thing as of a new one; while invention, in patent law, relates especially to absolute origination."

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does patent law mean?: The body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.

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