patent system

1. 1.

   a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors

   Broaderlegal system

   law

Questions about patent system

What does patent system mean?

patent system means "a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors".

Is patent system a common word?

patent system 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.