Patent right

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Case Law, Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910)

Definitions from Case Law

From 229 U.S. 1 - Bauer Cie v. James O'Donnell · 1913Most cited · 328 citing opinions

The right to make, use, and sell an invented article is not derived from the patent law. This right existed before and without the passage of the law, and was always the right of an inventor. The act secured to the inventor the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the thing patented, and consequently to prevent others from exercising like privileges without the consent of the patentee.

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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

A right of exclusive sale or manufacture secured by a patent.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

A privilege granted by the government to the first inventor of a new and useful discovery or mode of manufacture that he shall be entitled during a limited period to the exclusive use and benefit thereof. See 87 Md. 687, 67 Am. St. Rep. 371, 53 L. R. A. 417, 40 Atl. 1074.

Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia

John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914

See Patent.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

See Patent.

Defined under Right in Black's Law Dictionary.