contestation of the patent application

contestation

— noun (= argument) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement they were involved in a violent argument

of Preposition

— Made using. It is a house of cards.

the Determiner

— Used, instead of a, to reference something specific, already known to exist. Compare "I read a book." and "I read the book." — Used with a stress, to show that the word following is special. Are you the John Smith that I went to school with? — Used with an adjective that acts like a noun to mean all of the people concerned The poor are always with us. — Used with superlatives forms of adjectives and adverbs. You are the best.

patent Noun

— A patent is a way of protecting an invention from being stolen. — Thomas Edison had over 2000 patents.

patent Verb

— To patent means to get a patent on an invention Thomas Edison patented the light bulb and the phonograph.

application Noun

— An application is a request for something. Often it is a paper form that you have to fill out to ask for something. She filled out her applications for college and hoped she would hear soon whether she was accepted to any schools. I have to go to the bank today to fill out an application for a loan. — An application is the way something is used. The application of the new laws made things much more fair in the country. — If something has an application, it can be used. She liked studying Latin in college, but found that a degree in Latin had few applications in the real world. — An application is a computer program. He told me I would need a special application to make my new printer work with my old computer. — Application is putting something onto something else, like a surface. Kathleen was so light-skinned that she needed many applications of sunscreen each time she was at the beach to keep from getting sunburned. The doctor said: &;quot;Application of this medicine to your cut will make it heal faster.&;quot;