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.
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
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.
a.
Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring
some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under
3d Letter.
a.
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.
a.
A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document,
issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some
person or party.
a.
A writing securing to an invention.
a.
A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
a.
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
Four other gentlemen of quality remained mentioned in that patent.
If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend.
Patent
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;
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 ExamplesWith 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.