patent right

noun

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

Origin of patent right

First recorded in 1795–1805

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Historical Examples of patent right

But I can tell you one thing before you begin; if it's a patent-right, there's no money in it.
Tom Sawyer Abroad
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
Sometimes Dan was late, and explained that it was his patent-right man had kept him.
April Hopes
William Dean Howells
Watt's patent-right expired in 1800, and from that time the Cornish engineers were free to make engines after their own methods.
The Life of George Stephenson and of his Son Robert Stephenson
Samuel Smiles
Of all cases arising under the patent-right or copyright laws of the United States.
A Treatise Upon the Law of Copyright in the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the Crown,
E. J. MacGillivray
I asked the patent-right man what commission he would allow if I would find a customer.
Twenty Years of Hus'ling
J. P. Johnston

British Dictionary definitions for patent right

patent right

noun

the exclusive right granted by a patent

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