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Meaning of nonpatent | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

Not a patent

not-comparable

Examples

“The United States Patent Office classified search files currently consist of about 18 million United States patent documents, about 12 million foreign patent documents, and about 2 million documents of nonpatent literature.”
“NPR is a simple count of the number of references in a patent application to a wide variety of nonpatent publications, including scientific papers and articles, brochures, books, standards, documents, patent disclosure bulletins, and so on.”
“The exclusivity period of a product on the market can also be extended through nonpatent exclusivities.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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