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(often caps.) a governmental agency that administers and regulates patents and trademarks, in the U.S. forming a division of the Department of Commerce.
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Patent Office — A UK government office that administers the Patent Acts, the Registered Designs Act, and the Trade Marks Act. It also deals with questions relating to the Copyright Acts, and provides an information service about patent specifications … Big dictionary of business and management
Patent Office — noun the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones • Syn: ↑Patent and Trademark Office Database • Hypernyms: ↑agency, ↑federal agency, ↑government agency, ↑bureau, ↑office, ↑ … Useful english dictionary
Patent Office — A federal bureau located in Washington D. C., headed by the Commissioner of Patents, wherein the merits of an application for a patent are considered and where all records, drawings, models, specifications, and other papers and things pertaining… … Ballentine's law dictionary
patent office — noun Date: 1696 a government office for examining claims to patents and granting patents … New Collegiate Dictionary
