nonpatentability

Noun

 * 1)  The characteristic of being nonpatentable; inability to be patented.
 * 2) * 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.