Meaning of unpatent | Babel Free

Definitions

To release from a legal patent.

rare, transitive

Examples

“[…] unpatenting inventions. But he saw some decided advantages in publication patents if limited to agencies of the government. He, therefore, moved to amend by deleting "by an applicant" and inserting […]”

“[…] unpatenting of a guild secret, and its concomitant professional recording for mass consumption.”

CEFR level