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pat·ent·ee

 (păt′n-tē′)
n.
The party that possesses or has been granted a patent.
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patentee

(ˌpeɪtənˈtiː; ˌpæ-)
n
(Law) a person, group, company, etc, that has been granted a patent
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pat•ent•ee

(ˌpæt nˈti; esp. Brit. ˌpeɪt-)

n.
a person, group, or company granted a patent.
[1400–50]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.patentee - the inventor to whom a patent is issued
artificer, discoverer, inventor - someone who is the first to think of or make something
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Translations

patentee

[ˌpeɪtənˈtiː] Nposeedor(a) m/f de patente
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patentee

nPatentinhaber(in) m(f)
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He called it the Sleet's crow's-nest, in honor of himself; he being the original inventor and patentee, and free from all ridiculous false delicacy, and holding that if we call our own children after our own names (we fathers being the original inventors and patentees), so likewise should we denominate after ourselves any other apparatus we may beget.
Those persons, indeed, who have passed any time behind the scenes of this great theatre, and are thoroughly acquainted not only with the several disguises which are there put on, but also with the fantastic and capricious behaviour of the Passions, who are the managers and directors of this theatre (for as to Reason, the patentee, he is known to be a very idle fellow and seldom to exert himself), may most probably have learned to understand the famous nil admirari of Horace, or in the English phrase, to stare at nothing.
She permits us, indeed, to mar, but seldom to mend, and, like a jealous patentee, on no account to make.
He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.
For example, a patentee and a licensee enter into a license agreement whereby the patentee will receive a royalty from the licensee on any sales of the patentee's product.
elsewhere; (8) the patentee will then be the exclusive seller in the
CommScope and CCI have made substantial investments in research and development in these areas, and each recognizes the need to protect the patentee's rights while allowing for appropriate licensing agreements that allow customers to have access to the most up to date technologies at fairly competing sources.
Under Section 284 of the Patent Statute, a patentee is entitled to damages sufficient to compensate for any infringement.
Second, the Court asserted that since the patentee typically chooses the time and place of litigation, there is little reason to think that the patentee had unusual difficulty in getting all the relevant probative evidence before the court in the first litigation.
(3) Laches applies when a patent owner, referred to as the patentee, unreasonably delays in filing suit against the alleged infringing defendant.
Upon institution, the patentee has the opportunity to amend claims amidst a period of limited discovery.
Once all of the pertinent information has been gathered (on an on-going basis) and reviewed by the PMPRB, the review board has the power to order the patentee to lower the price of the drug in any market in Canada for any period of time.