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patent office

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patent office
n.
A government bureau that studies claims for, grants, and maintains records of patents.
Patent Office [ˈpætənt]
n
(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) (Law) a government department that issues patents Abbreviation Pat. Off
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Noun1.patent officePatent Office - the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones
Patent and Trademark Office Database
Commerce Department, Department of Commerce, DoC, Commerce - the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913
bureau, federal agency, government agency, agency, office, authority - an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority"
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Patent Office n the Patent Office → l'ufficio brevetti
Patent Office n the Patent Office → l'ufficio brevetti


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That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my adminis- tration -- and it was on the very first day of it, too -- was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways.
A Connecticut Yankee by Twain, Mark View in context
The Patent Office at Washington, furnishes an extraordinary example of American enterprise and ingenuity; for the immense number of models it contains are the accumulated inventions of only five years; the whole of the previous collection having been destroyed by fire.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
In describing it to the officials of the Patent Office, he was obliged to call it "an improvement in telegraphy," when, in truth, it was nothing of the kind.
The History of the Telephone by Casson, Herbert N. View in context
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