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Definition of Patent

1. Noun. A document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention.

2. Verb. Obtain a patent for. "Should I patent this invention?"

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

4. Noun. An official document granting a right or privilege.

5. Verb. Grant rights to; grant a patent for.

6. Adjective. Clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment. "In plain view"

7. Verb. Make open to sight or notice. "His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him"

Definition of Patent

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

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

3. 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.

Definition of Patent

1. to obtain a patent (a government grant protecting the rights of an inventor) on [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Patent

1. 1. 2. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter. 3. 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. "Madder . . . In King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity." (Mortimer) 4. Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf. Patent leather, a varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness work. Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents. Patent right. The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture. The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives. Patent rolls, the registers, or records, of patents. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patent

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