Patent Definition–noun | 1. | the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. | | 2. | an invention or process protected by this right. | | 3. | an official document conferring such a right; letters patent. | | 4. | the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land. | –adjective patent (for 10, 12–15.) | 6. | protected by a patent; patented: a patent cooling device. | | 7. | pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, esp. on
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inventions: a patent attorney; patent law. | | 8. | conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege. | | 9. | holding a patent, as a person. | | 10. | readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious: a patent breach of good manners. | | 11. | made of patent leather: patent shoes. | | 12. | lying open; not enclosed or shut in: a patent field. | | 13. | Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading. | | 14. | open, as a doorway or a passage. | | 15. | Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream. | –verb (used with object) | 16. | to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent. | | 17. | to originate and establish as one's own. | | 18. | Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing. | | 19. | to grant (public land) by a patent. | |
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Invention Definition–noun | 2. | U.S. Patent Law. a new, useful
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process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition or genius, as distinguished from ordinary mechanical skill or craftsmanship. | | 3. | anything invented or devised. | | 4. | the power or faculty of inventing, devising, or originating. | | 5. | an act or instance of creating or producing by exercise of the imagination, esp. in art, music, etc. | | 6. | something fabricated, as a false statement. | | 7. | Sociology. the creation of a new culture trait, pattern, etc. | | 8. | Music. a short piece, contrapuntal in nature, generally based on one subject. | | 9. | Rhetoric. (traditionally) one of the five steps in speech preparation, the process of choosing ideas appropriate to the subject, audience, and occasion. | | 10. | Archaic. the act of finding. | |
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