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patentee|ˌpæt-, ˌpeɪtənˈtiː|
Also 7 patenty, pattentie.
[f. patent n. + -ee1: cf. mortgagee; perh. first in an AngloFr. form patenté. (Mod.F. patenté in same sense is only of 19th c.)]
One to whom letters patent have been granted; b. now esp. one who has taken out a patent for some new invention, or the like: cf. patent n. 2.
1442Rolls of Parlt. V. 62/2 Delivered by the Fermours, Patentees, Tenaunts and Occupiours. 1495Act 11 Hen. VII, c. 16 The Kinges Committees or his patentees for the kepyng of the seid Toun as afore is seid. 1583in Hakluyt Voy. (1600) III. 189 With expresse prohibition..against all others, which shall go thither without the licence of the patentee or his assignes first obteined. 1622E. Misselden Free Trade (ed. 2) 72 The question is, who is then the Monopolian, whether the Patentees, or their Assignes? 1647Clarendon Hist. Reb. v. §330 In all Publick Acts..they were desired to be admitted joynt Patentees with his Majesty in the Regality. 1724Swift Prometheus Wks. 1755 III. ii. 150 Wood the patentee's Irish half-pence. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. i. 2 The patentees of the Northern colony. 1791Boswell Johnson an. 1747, David Garrick, having become joint patentee and manager of Drury-lane theatre. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) II. 492 John Hawkins, the heir of the said Joan,..upon a scire facias against the patentee, had judgement to recover the lands.
b.1691T. H[ale] Acc. New Invent. p. l, The Patentees of these New Lights. 1701[see patent n. 2]. 1731Gentl. Mag. I. 452 Patentees of a new invented Plough. 1879Cassell's Techn. Educ. IV. 91/1 Provided the patentee is the first person who has produced the substance in a sufficient quantity to make it a marketable article.
c. fig. † One to whom something has been granted (obs.); an inventor and proprietor of something.
1616B. Parsons Mag. Charter 15 So God..joyneth them patentees heere together. 1900Westm. Gaz. 27 Aug. 2/2 Mr. Plunkett is the patentee of the policy of killing Home Rule by kindness. 1903Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 4/3 Mr. Spencer..may indeed be called the inventor and patentee of evolution.
Hence patenˈteed ppl. a., made a patentee, provided with letters patent.
1775Adair Amer. Ind. 144 note, Since the patenteed race of Daublers set foot in their land. |