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patent office

noun

  1. (often initial capital letters) a governmental agency that administers and regulates patents and trademarks, in the U.S. forming a division of the Department of Commerce.


Patent Office

/ ˈpætənt /

noun

  1. a government department that issues patents Pat. Off
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Example Sentences

Throughout American history, agencies and bureaus such as the Post Office, the National Mint, the Customs Bureau, the Patent Office and the Federal Reserve Board have been funded by fees, not an annual appropriation from Congress.

Patent Office for that spelling, which is still pending.

Patent Office agricultural records from 1843 to 1845 to show how the pathogen first spread across the northeast United States before causing the devastating famine in Ireland in 1845.

After lower courts sided with the patent office, Thaler took his appeal to the Supreme Court, where a panel of judges unanimously dismissed the case.

The European Patent Office declared a contested mRNA patent owned by Moderna invalid, the office said on Tuesday, handing a win to BioNTech and its partner Pfizer in a patent dispute between the two coronavirus vaccine makers.

From Reuters

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