0 the person or organization that owns the legal right to make or sell something
1 a person or company that owns the legal right to make or sell something:
The patentee is expected to arrange for the invention to be worked commercially to the fullest extent that is reasonably practicable.
Exclusivity is given in return for the patentee making the invention public and meeting all the statutory requirements for patentability.
In this case, the patentee would be remunerated but would lose his exclusivity.
Female patentees, although rare in the history of invention, have had significant influence in selected fields - especially music education.
The object of the patent was to promote fine music and to suppress inferior music - as they knew it - and indirectly to subsidize the patentees through the sale of copies.
In these circumstances we have a statutory obligation to inform the patentee and, if possible, to agree with him terms of use.
That means that the judiciary should be ready to review the scope of the patentee's legal entitlement.
At the moment, this proviso relates only to the licence granted by the patentee himself.
I understand, however, that private arrangements existed between the patentees and two firms in this country, under which payments might continue.
