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Patentable

Patentable \Pat"ent*a*ble\, a. Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.

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patentable

a. (context legal English) Able to be protected by a patent.

Usage examples of "patentable".

But if you got 3 or 5, that could not possibly be aggregation, and therefore it might be patentable invention.

As patent applications proliferated and grew ever more arcane, the definition of what constitutes a patentable invention had to be revised.

Business processes and methods, plants, genetic material, strains of animals, minor changes to existing technologies - are all patentable.