patent

[Pat·ent]

A patent is a government document that proves that an invention is yours and yours alone. In the U.S., as of 2009, over 7,000,000 patents were issued by the Patent and Trademark Office.

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A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

Noun
a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

Noun
an official document granting a right or privilege

Verb
make open to sight or notice; "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"

Verb
obtain a patent for; "Should I patent this invention?"

Verb
grant rights to; grant a patent for

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Adjective S.
clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses; "the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields"; "evident hostility"; "manifest disapproval"; "patent advantages"; "made his meaning plain"; "it is plain that he is no reac

Adjective S.
(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage; "patent ductus arteriosus"

a.
Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

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Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

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Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines.

a.
Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

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A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

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A writing securing to an invention.

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A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

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The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

v. t.
To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

Patent

Pat"ent, n. [Cf. F. patente. See Patent, a.] 1. A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. Specifically: (a) A writing securing to an invention. (b) A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent.

&hand; In the United States, by the act of 1870, patents for inventions are issued for seventeen years, without the privilege of renewal except by act of Congress. 2. The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend.

Patent

Pat"ent, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Patented; p. pr. & vb. n. Patenting.] To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

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Usage Examples

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

Every piece of software written today is likely going to infringe on someone else's patent.

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Other Usage Examples

With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all.

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.