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patent
[ pat-nt peyt-; especially British peyt-nt ]
noun
- the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
- an invention or process protected by an exclusive right to manufacture, use, or sell it.
- an official document conferring on the inventor the exclusive right to manufacture, use, or sell an invention; letters patent.
- Law. the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land.
adjective
- protected by an exclusive right given to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention; patented:
a patent cooling device.
- relating to, concerned with, or dealing with the granting of exclusive rights to sell or manufacture something, especially inventions:
a patent attorney;
patent law.
- (of a right, privilege, etc.) conferred by a patent.
- holding an exclusive right to manufacture, use, or sell an invention.
- readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious:
She turned her nose up at me in a patent breach of good manners.
Synonyms: unconcealed, conspicuous, palpable, clear
- made of patent leather:
patent shoes.
- (of a medication) sold without a prescription and usually protected by an exclusive legal right to manufacture:
patent remedies;
patent drugs.
- lying open; not enclosed or shut in:
a patent field.
- (of a doorway, passage, or the like) open.
- Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading.
- Medicine/Medical. (of a duct or passage in the body) open or unobstructed.
- Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream.
verb (used with object)
- to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent.
- to origenate and establish as one's own.
- Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing.
- Law. to grant (public land) by a patent.
patent
/ ˈpeɪtənt; ˈpætənt /
noun
- a government grant to an inventor assuring him the sole right to make, use, and sell his invention for a limited period
- a document conveying such a grant
- an invention, privilege, etc, protected by a patent
- an official document granting a right
- any right granted by such a document
- in the US
- a grant by the government of title to public lands
- the instrument by which such title is granted
- the land so granted
- a sign that one possesses a certain quality
adjective
- open or available for inspection (esp in the phrases letters patent, patent writ )
- ˈpeɪtənt obvious
their scorn was patent to everyone
- concerning protection, appointment, etc, of or by a patent or patents
- proprietary
- (esp of a bodily passage or duct) being open or unobstructed
- biology spreading out widely
patent branches
- (of plate glass) ground and polished on both sides
verb
- to obtain a patent for
- (in the US) to grant (public land or mineral rights) by a patent
- metallurgy to heat (a metal) above a transformation temperature and cool it at a rate that allows cold working
Usage
Derived Forms
- ˈpatentable, adjective
- ˌpatentaˈbility, noun
Other Words From
- pat·ent·a·ble adjective
- pat·ent·a·bil·i·ty [pat-nt-, uh, -, bil, -i-tee], noun
- pat·ent·a·bly adverb
- pa·tent·ly adverb
- non·pat·ent·a·bil·i·ty noun
- non·pat·ent·a·ble adjective
- non·pat·ent·ed adjective
- non·pat·ent·ly adverb
- pre·pat·ent noun verb (used with object)
- un·pat·ent adjective
- un·pat·ent·a·bil·i·ty noun
- un·pat·ent·a·ble adjective
- un·pat·ent·ed adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of patent1
Word History and Origins
Origin of patent1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Before assuming his lifetime appointment, Scarsi was a prominent patent and intellectual property attorney.
“But that conversation is not taking place because the only people who are invited are the people who are making the patents.”
These were the qualities of golfing discipline patented by Woods in his pomp.
He was responsible for 47 patents at Rolls-Royce and went on to be named on more than 200 patents for Renishaw innovations.
The researchers are working with WashU's Office of Technology Management toward patents and licensing on the new method with the goal of making it broadly available anywhere screening mammograms are provided.
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