"unpatent" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "un- + patent",
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  "etymology_text": "From un- + patent.",
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    {
      "form": "unpatents",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unpatenting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unpatented",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unpatented",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1962, American Bar Association. Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, Summary of Proceedings (page 68)",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Techniques & culture (issues 15-16, page 34)",
          "text": "[…] unpatenting of a guild secret, and its concomitant professional recording for mass consumption."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To release from a legal patent."
      ],
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          "release",
          "release"
        ],
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          "legal",
          "legal"
        ],
        [
          "patent",
          "patent"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, rare) To release from a legal patent."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "rare",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "unpatent"
}

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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From un- + patent.",
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    {
      "form": "unpatents",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unpatenting",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "unpatented",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "unpatented",
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        {
          "ref": "1962, American Bar Association. Section of Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law, Summary of Proceedings (page 68)",
          "text": "[…] 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 […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1990, Techniques & culture (issues 15-16, page 34)",
          "text": "[…] unpatenting of a guild secret, and its concomitant professional recording for mass consumption."
        }
      ],
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        "To release from a legal patent."
      ],
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        [
          "release",
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        ],
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          "legal",
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        "(transitive, rare) To release from a legal patent."
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