Definition of Patent

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Patent

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

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

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.

Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

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 writing securing to an invention.

A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.

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

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.

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Patent Quotations

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
Lord Byron

We were proposing, in a sense, that the rest of the world be made safe for American ideas, as they adopted intellectual property rights that gave patent protection to our very innovative economy.
Jeffrey Sachs

With 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.
Federico Garcia Lorca

It is a most extraordinary thing, but I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
Jerome K. Jerome

No patent medicine was ever put to wider and more varied use than the Fourteenth Amendment.
William O. Douglas

A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.
Dean Kamen

This does not mean that every copyright must prove its value initially. That would be a far too cumbersome system of control. But it does mean that every system or category of copyright or patent should prove its worth.
Lawrence Lessig

Lincoln said that the Patent Office adds the flame of interest to the light of creativity. And that is why we need to improve the effectiveness of our Patent Office.
Jay Inslee

Our strategy in dealing with patents in Mono is the same strategy that any other software developer would take. In the event of a patent claim, we will try to find prior art to the claim of the patent.
Miguel de Icaza

Now Stan and I were still working in secret at that time but, because of this development, we had to inform the University of Utah because we thought that they might need to take patent protection.
Martin Fleischmann

Patent Translations

patent in Dutch is patent, octrooi
patent in French is brevet
patent in German is patentiere, Patent
patent in Italian is brevetto
patent in Portuguese is patente
patent in Spanish is patente
patent in Swedish is uppenbar, patent

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