patentee
Noun
Meaning
One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent.
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A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject?
The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.
But Bessemer was able to maintain them intact without litigation, though he found it advisable to buy up the rights of one patentee.
He was a patentee of the Openshaw unbreakable tire, and his business met with such success that he was able to sell it and to retire upon a handsome competence.
The patentee, MSD, which imports and markets Sitagliptin as Januvia, has also entered into an agreement with Sun Pharma Laboratories, which sells Sitagliptin under the brand name, Istavel.
While ISRO is the patentee or patent owner, the four inventors are Srirangam Siripothu, Reshmi Balachandran, Saraswathi Kesava Pillai Manu, and Gurumurthy Chandrasekaran.