patentholder

English

Etymology

From patent +‎ holder.

Noun

patentholder (plural patentholders)

1. The holder of a patent.
   • 2008 January 8, Donald G. Mcneil Jr., “Jump-Start on Slow Trek to Treatment for a Disease”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The advantage of adopting an abandoned drug is that the former patentholder has usually done the chemical analyses, animal studies and, sometimes, early human trials, saving millions of dollars.