patent office

English Thesaurus

1. the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones (noun.group)

hypernym	:	agency, authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office,
definition	:	an administrative unit of government (noun.group)

part meronym	:	commerce, commerce department, department of commerce, doc,
definition	:	the United States federal department that promotes and administers domestic and foreign trade (including management of the census and the patent office); created in 1913 (noun.group)