patent office

noun

1. (often initial capital letters) a governmental agency that administers and regulates patents and trademarks, in the U.S. forming a division of the Department of Commerce.

Patent Office

/ ˈpætənt /

noun

1. a government department that issues patents Pat. Off

Example Sentences

The Narrowness of Computer IntelligenceThere are some folks who seem to think that I’m saying that “Humans are always going to be special” or “Close the patent office—there’s a limit to what tomorrow’s inventors can invent!”

From Nautilus

All appeals must be taken from the patent office within a year, or a shorter period, if one has been fixed in a decision.

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The Patent Office is the only institution in the world that does not know the meaning of the phrase 'room temperature'.

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I explained how I was going to handle the case to make sure we got a good, broad patent application into the Patent Office.

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It will probably find its way to the museum of the National Institute in the new patent office at Washington.

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The patent office shows many thousands of such in the aggregate.

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