"patentee" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1929, Decisions of the Commissioner of Patents and of the United States Courts in Patent and Trade-mark and Copyright Cases, page 256:",
          "text": "The patentee in his specifications speaks of triphenylguanidine and compares its operation as an accelerator with that guanidine, the utility of which as an accelerator he claims to have discovered, called diphenylguanidine.",
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          "ref": "1946 November and December, “Notes and News: Colour-Light Signals 100 Years Ago”, in Railway Magazine, page 387:",
          "text": "Probably the patentee, whilst fully realising the need for drivers receiving clear signals, did not fully appreciate the primary object of the signalling system.",
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        "One to whom a grant is made, or a privilege secured, by patent; a person, group, company etc. that has been granted a patent."
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        {
          "word": "patenter"
        },
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          "word": "patentholder"
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  "word": "patentee"
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