patent right

American  

noun

1. the exclusive right granted by a patent, as on an invention.

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patent right British  

noun

1. the exclusive right granted by a patent

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Etymology

Origin of patent right

First recorded in 1795–1805

Example Sentences

It would make little sense, after all, to grant someone the powerful exclusionary patent right on an idea already known to the world.

From Slate • Oct. 20, 2015

On display at the Shirokiya Department Store went more than 70 foreign-made products alongside Japanese copies so cleverly done that only an expert could tell which twin had the patent right.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the use of this machine being immensely profitable to almost every planter in the cotton districts, all were interested in trespassing on the patent right, and each kept the other in countenance....

From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Piercy, Willis Duff

They stick as closely to these lines as though their wares were protected by some tribal "patent right."

From The Unwritten Literature of the Hopi by Lockett, Hattie Greene

Before sailing, Bauer cashed a check for $5,000 on Halstead, Burns & Co., payment it is said on a patent right owned by himself and son for a new invention in the incubator line.

From The High Calling by Sheldon, Charles Monroe