单词 | patenting |
释义 | patentingn. 1. The process of obtaining by letters patent the sole right to make, use, or sell something. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > industrial property rights > conferred by patent > granting or taking out of patent patenting1756 patentizing1829 1756 in Documentary Hist. N.-Y. (1851) 300 The Land must either remain waste to the Detriment of Your Majesty's Interest because it cannot make good the charges and Fees of Surveying and Patenting, wich are great, or bring up the Quitrent. 1883 Daily News 25 Sept. 3/1 Patenting was unnecessarily and unwisely expensive, and the poor patentee was left almost without any aid or guidance. a1898 H. Bessemer Autobiogr. (1905) v. 82 The conditions were most unfavourable for patenting, owing to the fact that the article produced..could not be identified as having been made by any particular form of mechanism. 1992 B. Coote Trade Trap ix. 113 The patenting of living matter would..have profound implications for Third World agriculture. 2002 N.Y. Times 5 May iv. 16/2 The commercialization of the human body, through patenting of genes and human tissues. 2. Metallurgy. A process for improving the ductility of wire, similar to normalizing but involving cooling in air or in molten lead or salt. Frequently attributive.The subject of Brit. Patent 1104 (granted to J. Horsfall in 1854). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > pressing or drawing > wire making > specific processes patenting1891 post-stressing1941 1891 J. B. Smith Wire i. 60 ‘The patenting or improving’ of steel wire is..an occult process..for each manufacturer has his own..special methods. 1916 D. K. Bullens Steel & its Heat Treatm. xvii. 405 The structure obtained by patenting permits much further cold drawing than does the structure obtained by annealing. 1921 L. Aitchison Engin. Steels viii. 275 The patenting furnace is a long, open-ended chamber. 1992 D. T. Llewellyn Steel iv. 209 Patenting is still employed to a limited extent but most high-carbon steels are now drawn directly from as-rolled rod. 2001 Materials Sci. & Engin. A. 303 128/1 The co-deformation started with an extrusion step at 700°C subsequently followed by patenting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1756 |
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