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Definition of Patented

1. Adjective. (of devices and processes) protected by patent. "They are patented inventions"

Definition of Patented

1. Verb. (past of patent) ¹

2. Adjective. For which a patent has been granted. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patented

1. patent [v] - See also: patent

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patented

Literary usage of Patented

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"Nothing is used by the defendant which is patented Ът complainant's patent. Nothing less than the whole of the parts in combination is patented, ..."

2. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"He patented this invention, and visited Paris in connection with it; but, ... In lH-51 he invented and patented, in conjunction with the hite Mr. ..."

3. Supreme Court Reporter by Robert Desty, United States Supreme Court, West Publishing Company (1918)
"But to say thatM where lieu lands were thereafter certified org patented In place ol"lands lost or relinquish-« ed by the grantee no suit should be ..."

4. The Law of Contracts by Samuel Williston, Clarence Martin Lewis (1922)
"The MANUFACTURER agrees to use his best efforts to manufacture and sell the said patented articles. 13. The MANUFACTURER agrees that if he organize and ..."

5. Commentaries on the Law of Municipal Corporations by John Forrest Dillon (1911)
"patented Inventions. — When no provision of the charter restricts the power of the municipality to contract, eg, by requiring all contracts to be let to the ..."

6. Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States by United States Supreme Court, William Cranch, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard, Jeremiah Sullivan Black (1905)
"For when, by any event, the material thing patented no longer exists, it can only be renewed under the authority of the exclusive right to make the thing ..."

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