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Person that owns the rights to an invention
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patentee
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n. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
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Patentee \Pat`ent*ee"\, n. One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent. --Bacon.
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The Patentee locomotive was a revolutionary 2-2-2 steam locomotive type introduced by Robert Stephenson and Company in 1833, as an enlargement of their 2-2-0 Planet type. The wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels ...
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n. the inventor to whom a patent is issued
Usage examples of patentee.
He was not only a Merchant Adventurer, but a patentee and deputygovernor of the Massachusetts Company, and an intimate friend of Winthrop.
Sir James Coventry, under date of July 23, to prepare a Patent for the Council for the Affairs of New England to supersede the Plymouth Virginia Company, Sir Ferdinando Gorges and Sir Robert Rich the Earl of Warwick among the Patentees.
A patent right may, however, be subjected, by bill in equity, to payment of a judgment debt of the patentee.
Furthermore, the rights which the present statutes confer are subject to the Anti-Trust Acts, though it can be hardly said that the cases in which the Court has endeavored to draw the line between the rights claimable by patentees and the kind of monopolistic privileges which are forbidden by those acts exhibit entire consistency in their holdings.
David Garrick, having become joint patentee and manager of Drury-lane theatre, Johnson honoured his opening of it with a Prologue, which for just and manly dramatick criticism, on the whole range of the English stage, as well as for poetical excellence, is unrivalled.
Gets into patent accountings here where the infringer has to separate the profits from his own contribution where it's just as unfair here to cast the infringer for all the profits as it would be to deny the patentee or the author any recovery because he can't separate his own contribution so the court puts the burden on them, you see?
Among the early patentees, besides the names of Sturtevant and Rovenzon, we find those of Jordens, Francke, Sir Phillibert Vernatt, and other foreigners of the above nations.