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PATENT SYSTEM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patent system mean? 

PATENT SYSTEM (noun)
  The noun PATENT SYSTEM has 1 sense:

1. a legal system for protecting the rights of inventorsplay

  Familiarity information: PATENT SYSTEM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PATENT SYSTEM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A legal system for protecting the rights of inventors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("patent system" is a kind of...):

legal system (a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)


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