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added matter

noun/ˈædɪd ˈmætə/

C2CEFR level
88/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

Content introduced into a patent by amendment that extends it beyond what was originally disclosed, rendering it vulnerable to attack.

The amendment was disallowed for added matter because the narrowed feature appeared nowhere in the original filing.

Topic: Intellectual property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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