patent system

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patent system - a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors

legal system - a system for interpreting and enforcing the laws

law, jurisprudence - the collection of rules imposed by authority; "civilization presupposes respect for the law"; "the great problem for jurisprudence to allow freedom while enforcing order"

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