aggregation

Patents. 1. A set of parts that do not cooperate in structure or function, and are therefore unpatentable as an invention; the opposite of a combination. [Cases: Patents 25. C.J.S. Patents § 86.] 2.Hist. A patent examiner’s label for a claimed invention that may or may not be a patentable combination but whose claims do not clearly explain how the parts cooperate to produce a new or unexpected result.

• As a term of art, aggregation lost its usefulness when it was replaced by a statutory test in § 103 of the Patent Act of 1952.

— Also termed juxtaposition. Cf. COMBINATION (4).

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译者Celia，毕业于新加坡知名法学院，擅长翻译涉及信息和智能技术领域的法律文件。