nonpatentability

== English == === Etymology === From non- +‎ patentability. === Noun === nonpatentability (uncountable) (law) The characteristic of being nonpatentable; inability to be patented. 1976, Thurgood Marshall, Dann v. Johnston, 425 U.S. 219, 224 (1976): The Solicitor of the Patent Office argued before the CCPA that Benson’s holding of nonpatentability as to the computer program in that case was controlling here.