patentable
adjEtymology From patent + -able.
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Law Able to be protected by a patent; for which a patent can be granted.
- The funding gap is not the sole, or primary reason so few drugs are approved. Whether a product is patentable, and therefore profitable for a pharmaceutical company, is a major determinant in the rate at which it will proceed along the NIH process.1988 August 13, Miranda Kolbe, “A PWA Movement of Guerrilla Clinics”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 5, page 8:
- Derived terms
- nonpatentable, patentably, unpatentable