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n. A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.

n. Letters patent.

n. An invention protected by such a grant.

n. A grant made by a government that confers on an individual fee-simple title to public lands.

n. The official document of such a grant.

n. The land so granted.

n. An exclusive right or title.

adj. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.

adj. Of, relating to, or dealing in patents: patent law.

adj. Obvious; plain. See Synonyms at apparent.

adj. Biology Not blocked; open.

adj. Biology Spreading open; expanded.

adj. Of, relating to, or being a nonprescription drug or other medical preparation that is often protected by a trademark.

adj. Of high quality. Used of flour.

adj. Archaic Open to general inspection. Used especially of documents.

v. To obtain a patent on or for (an invention, for example).

v. To invent, originate, or be the proprietor of (an idea, for example).

v. To grant a patent to or for.

adj. open, unobstructed, expanded.

adj. explicit and obvious.

adj. that is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm

n. A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.

n. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.

n. Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.

v. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.

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

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

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

adj. Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch.

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.

n. A writing securing to an invention.

n. A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

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

v. To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent

Lying open; open; expanded.

Specifically— In botany, spreading; open; either widely spreading or diverging widely from an axis.

In zoology, patulous; open, as by the size of an aperture, the shallowness of a cavity, etc.

Manifest to all; unconcealed; evident; obvious; conspicuous.

Open to the perusal of all: as, letters patent. See letter.

Appropriated by letters patent; secured by law or patent as an exclusive privilege; restrained from general use; patented.

Synonyms Plain, obvious, palpable, unmistakable, glaring, notorious.

n. An official document, sometimes called letters patent (which see, under letter), conferring or granting a privilege; also, the privilege so granted: as, a patent of nobility; a patent conferring the right to engage in a particular trade or pursuit, maintain a place of amusement, or the like, usually to the exclusion of others.

n. Specifically— A letter of indulgence; an indulgence; a pardon.

n. The grant by a government to the author of a new and useful invention, or to his assigns, of the exclusive right of exploiting that invention for a specified term of years; also, the instrument or letters by which a grant of land is made by a government to a person or corporation.

n. An invention; a thing invented: as, the machine is a new patent.

n. A region or tract of land granted by letters patent; a concession.

To grant by patent; make the subject of a patent; grant an exclusive right to by letters patent.

To obtain a patent upon; obtain an exclusive right in by securing letters patent.

n. A Middle English form of patent.

v. grant rights to; grant a patent for

n. an official document granting a right or privilege

adj. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment

adj. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage

v. make open to sight or notice

n. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

v. obtain a patent for

"After this patent was published, many promised to answer the king's expectations so effectually, that the next year he published _another patent_; wherein he tells his subjects, that the _happy hour_ was drawing nigh, and by means of THE STONE, which he should soon be master of, he would pay all the debts of the nation in real _gold and silver_."

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register    legal document    official document    instrument    legal instrument    change    modify    alter    document    written document   

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letter   

patented    patenting    patently    patent nonsense   

open    expanded    evident    apparent    unconcealed    manifest    public    conspicuous    patented    spreading   

combatant    noncombatant   

copyright    grant    charter    license    contract    commission    treaty    document    privilege    only