Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

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memorandum of alteration

English law. A patentee's disclaimer of certain rights - such as rights to part of an invention that is not new and useful - to avoid losing the whole patent. ( Under former law, if a patent was granted to two inventions, one of which was not new and useful, the entire patent would be defective.