patentee
Exclusive rights holder
A patentee is the person or entity that holds a patent—the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
The term appears in legal and business contexts: The patentee sued for infringement.
As patentee, the company controls licensing agreements.
Creator of original devices
- assigneeRecipient of transferred rights
- applicantOne who formally requests
- holderOne who possesses
- claimantOne asserting entitlement
grantee · proprietor · rights · exclusive · monopoly · title · intellectual property · infringement
New device or method
- discoveryAct of finding something
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- noveltyQuality of being original
- pioneerEarly explorer or settler
creator · developer · originator · technology · advancement · research · prototype · solution
One granting usage rights
- licenseeHolder of granted rights
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- agreementShared position between parties
- contractEnforceable written agreement
royalties · monetization · portfolio · valuation · revenue · negotiation · sublicense · exclusivity
inventor
Creator of original devices
claimant · grantee · proprietor · rights · exclusive · monopoly · title · intellectual property · infringement · claim
invention
New device or method
- discoveryAct of finding something
- breakthroughSudden important advance
- noveltyQuality of being original
pioneer · creator · developer · originator · technology · advancement · research · prototype · solution · improvement
licensor
One granting usage rights
- licenseeHolder of granted rights
- franchiseLicensed business operation
- agreementShared position between parties
contract · royalties · monetization · portfolio · valuation · revenue · negotiation · sublicense · exclusivity · territory
- Rightsholderscopyright holder, licensor, assignee, titleholder, registrant
- legal statusesmarried, single, divorced, citizen, widowed
- patentsUSPTO, EPO, PCT
patenteeinfringer
One who violates rights
tortfeasor · defendant · counterfeiter · pirate · violator
- patent protectionExclusive rights to invention
- patent holderOwner of invention rights
- patent leatherLacquered hide, highly reflective
- patent pendingInvention protection sought, ungranted
- patent officeAgency granting invention rights
- patent medicineTrademarked unproven remedy
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