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vb. (context patents English) In Japan and South Korea, to publish a patent for initial public review, prior to the formal application for registration.
Usage examples of "lay open".
Neverthelesse, men that have in their Writings but supposed such Doctrine, as an occasion to lay open the reasons for, and against it, have been punished for it by Authority Ecclesiasticall.
Next to a lightly upholstered chair, a book lay open, face down on a small stand, and a red light glowed in an expensive cube player beside it.
We shall therefore very minutely lay open those previous matters by which it was produced.
So forcibly did all these operate upon her, that she was almost determined to go directly to the squire, and to lay open the whole affair.
Where they expected to be stopped by the water, however, water was none: something had taken place in some part of the mine that had drained it off, and the gallery lay open as in former times.
A graceful, elegantly-formed young man stood by her, carelessly leaning one elbow on a bale of cotton, while a large pocket-book lay open before him.
A huge book lay open upon the stand, writ both in Latin and crabbed runes which looked, to my unpractised eye, either Druidic or pre-Celtic.
Having taken the fortified places at the foot of the mountains, their way now lay open to the plateau, unless every citizen could resist with the strength of ten men.
As he retreated a step the interior of lower ten lay open to the day.
Will said the hell with it and went to bed without even trying to clean up, except for piling the toppled books neatly so they wouldn't lay open and crooked.