patent of invention

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   a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

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Questions about patent of invention

What does patent of invention mean?

patent of invention means "a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention".

What is another word for patent of invention?

Close synonyms include patent. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patent of invention a common word?

patent of invention 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.