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Definition of Patent office
1. Noun. The government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones.
Group relationships: Commerce, Commerce Department, Department Of Commerce, Doc
Generic synonyms: Agency, Authority, Bureau, Federal Agency, Government Agency, Office
Lexicographical Neighbors of Patent Office
Literary usage of Patent office
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"Such security is afforded by the Act of Congress when his priority of invention
is established before the officers of the patent office, and the patent is ..."
2. Chemical Abstracts by American Chemical Society (1916)
"Copies of any patent may be obtained for: United States, 5 cents, sent to the
patent office, Washington, DC; French, one franc, sent to L'Imprimerie ..."
3. The Bookman (1911)
"STORIES OF OUR GOVERNMENT BUREAUS BY CATHERINE FRANCES CAVANAGH II—STRANGE STORIES
OF THE patent office VEN a cursory visit to the classical headquarters of ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"in the possession of Dr. BS Hedrick, formerly Examiner in thé US patent office.
The specimen was in the form of a cartridge, consisting of long staple gun ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The patent office.—The patent office is not an independent department of the
government ... The patent office force consists of the Commissioner of Patents, ..."
6. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1918)
"The patent office.—The patent office has continued to grant patente on mechanical
inventions and designs and to register trade-marks, prints and labels in ..."
7. Catalogue of the Libraryby Hispanic Society of America Library, Hispanic Society of America by Hispanic Society of America Library, Hispanic Society of America (1855)
"642 1 patent office Reports fur 1847. 8° 1848. 642 2 patent office Reports for 1848.
... 642 11 patent office Reports for 1853. Agricultural. 8° 1854. ..."
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