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inequitable conduct

noun

C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

The intentional withholding or misstatement of material information during patent prosecution, rendering the resulting patent unenforceable.

They buried a killer reference from the examiner, and that inequitable conduct taints the whole patent.

Similar: fraud on the office

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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