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.
Until the patent is granted, the scope of the patentee's monopoly will be uncertain.
It provides substantial benefits to patentees and national patent offices, and provides for a further degree of harmonisation of national patent laws.
The whole object is to make patentees more careful not only in their own interests but in the interests of the public.
Section 47 protects the rights of any persons, other than the patentee, who may have acquired property rights in the patent.
If the assignee is an exclusive licensee, he stands for all practical purposes in the same position as the patentee.
In some other countries the period has been for a long time, and, it is suggested, patentees in this country-have been placed at a disadvantage.
But you are proposing not to allow a foreign patentee to use it at all.
I understand, however, that private arrangements existed between the patentees and two firms in this country, under which payments might continue.
