patent application

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   an application for sole rights to an invention

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Questions about patent application

What does patent application mean?

patent application means "an application for sole rights to an invention".

Is patent application a common word?

patent application is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.