private use exception

private-use exception.

1. Copyright. FAIR USE.

2. Patents. An exception to the public-use statutory bar, allowing the inventor to use the invention for personal benefit for more than one year without abandoning patent rights under the statutory bars. — Also termed prior-user right. [Cases: Patents 75. C.J.S. Patents §§ 107–109.]


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