Definition of "patentable" [pat•ent•a•ble]

• Able to be protected by a patent. (adjective)

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• "Just find a way to cleanly dispense the toothpaste and get all of the toothpaste out of the container to the user in a protectable, aka patentable, device."
• "To see what happens when you make a patent office into the judges about what should and shouldn't be patentable which is what is being proposed in Europe, look at what happened in the US."
• "In the near past, no one considered knowledge or the fruits of creativity (art, design) as "patentable", or as someone's "property"."