patent infringement

1. 1.

   violation of the rights secured by a patent

   Broaderviolation

Questions about patent infringement

What does patent infringement mean?

patent infringement means "violation of the rights secured by a patent".

Is patent infringement a common word?

patent infringement 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.