PATENT OFFICE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones

Synonyms:

Patent and Trademark Office Database; Patent Office

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Patent Office" is a kind of...):

agency; authority; bureau; federal agency; government agency; office (an administrative unit of government)

Holonyms ("Patent Office" is a part of...):

Commerce; Commerce Department; Department of Commerce; DoC (the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913)

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