Definition of "patenting" [patenting]

• Present participle of patent. (verb)

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• "Ashby Pacesetter In Patents (with link to a Chemical & Engineering News article about gender differences in patenting, which cites Ashby as a woman "who gets it right")"
• "Furthermore, what business does the NSA or any other government agency have in patenting anything?"
• "India, fearing the loss of genetic material to pharmaceutical companies and other organizations interested in patenting the genomes of various organisms, forbids the export of tissue for analysis."