patentcy

English

Noun

patentcy (plural not attested)

1. Alternative form of patency
   • 1981, Alan Gilbert, Josef Gugler, Cities, Poverty, and Development: Urbanization in the Third World, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, published 1982, →ISBN, page 36:

     In the stage of monopoly industrial and financial domination, the peripheral country will have developed its own manufacturing and agribusiness sectors, but multinational corporations will control these sectors through subsidiary or finance-holding companies. Surplus will then be extracted through profit repatriation, royalty, and patentcy arrangements, and through accounting mechanisms within the corporation.

   • 1991, James W. Smith, Sherrell J. Aston, editors, Plastic Surgery, 4th edition, Boston, M.A., Toronto, O.N., London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 987:

     Although the success of long-term patentcy of such grafts is not as good as would be hoped, this patient's Allen test revealed good flow through the vascular reconstruction 16 months postoperatively.

   • 2006, Aage R. Møller, Hearing: Anatomy, Physiology, and Disorders of the Auditory System, 2nd edition, Amsterdam […]: Academic Press, →ISBN, page 232:

     The validity of this method for measuring ICP assumes that the perilymphatic space communicates with the intracranial space and that depends on the patentcy of the cochlear aqueduct (see Chapter 1).

   • 2013, Frederick A. Read, Future Homes, Maesteg, Mid Glamorgan: Guaranteed Books, →ISBN, page 218:

     There is one major item I must inform you about, which is a large court case brewing up back home, instigated by the International Ship Federation over the patentcy rights of your ship designs, and until I need to say anything else about who is your contender is, it might be prudent for you to get a good defence team together, as we in the ISDM are providing for our own ends.