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revoke a patent

phrase

C1CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister

To cancel a granted patent, typically on the ground that it should never have been granted.

The court agreed to revoke the patent for lack of inventive step.

Similar: invalidate a patent

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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