"patent grants" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to refer to a grant of a patent made by a government or other authority, such as the granting of a patent by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. For example, "The company was granted a patent for their new invention after filing for several patent grants."
They may also include policies adopted by governments, such as regular compulsory licensing where patents exist, or limiting patent grants through strict patentability criteria and procedures to facilitate pre- and post-grant oppositions on patent applications.
Letters patent (grants made publicly) became the usual way to create new peers or to promote existing ones.
The value, of course, derives from the fact that a patent grants exclusive rights to the holder for 17 to 20 years, depending on when it was issued.
Copyright developed out of the same system as royal patent grants, by which certain authors and printers were given the exclusive right to publish books and other materials.
Patent grants are generally granted for 30% to 60% of the applications.
In total 498,985 associations were found in patent grants and 172,886 associations were found in the patent applications.
Earrings are more than just baubles in a patent granted to Ken Aricola, Richard Morton and John Ross, all from California.
The four are patent volume, patent grant success rate, global reach of the patent portfolio and citations of patents.
The basis of their power was control of a patent granted in 1895 to George Baldwin Selden, a patent lawyer of Rochester, New York.
American Bioscience said that it was asserting its legitimate rights to a patent granted to it by the United States Patent Office.
Mr. Morrison's name is on the patent granted in 1957, and he became rich from Frisbee royalties.
