patent

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪtənt/ or IPA^(key): /ˈpætənt/
• (US) enPR: pătʹənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpætənt/, [pʰæ̝ʔn̩t] or enPR: pātʹənt, IPA^(key): /ˈpeɪtənt/, [pʰe̞ɪʔn̩t]

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Short form of Anglo-Norman lettre patente (“open letter”), from Latin littera patens.

patent (plural patents)

1. 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.
   • 2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:

     The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.

2. A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.
3. License; formal permission.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, Act IV, sc. 1:

     If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent

     to offend, for if it touch not you, it comes near

     nobody.

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

patent (third-person singular simple present patents, present participle patenting, simple past and past participle patented)

1. To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
   • 2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10:

     The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.

From Middle French patent, from Old French [Term?], from Latin patēns (“open, lying open”), present participle of pateō (“I lie open”).

patent (comparative more patent, superlative most patent)

1. (biology) Open, unobstructed, expanded.

   That is a patent ductus arteriosus.

2. Explicit and obvious.

   Those claims are patent nonsense.

3. (of flour) That is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.
4. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
   • Motley

     He had received instructions, both patent and secret.

5. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.

   letters patent

6. Protected by a legal patent.

   a patent right; patent medicines

   • Mortimer

     Madder […] in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity.

• patently

• Patten, patten, pét-nat

patent m (plural patents)

1. patent

patent m

1. patent (declaration issued by a government to an inventor)

• patentový

patent n (singular definite patentet, plural indefinite patenter)

1. patent

• patenterbar
• patentere

• “patent” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Middle French patente, from lettres patentes (“letter in which a privilege is granted”).

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• Hyphenation: pa‧tent
• Rhymes: -ɛnt

patent n (plural patenten, diminutive patentje n)

1. patent

• octrooi

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patent (comparative patenter, superlative am patentesten)

1. clever
2. ingenious

• patent in Duden online

patent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of pateō

Short form of Anglo-Norman lettre patente

patent n (definite singular patentet, indefinite plural patent or patenter, definite plural patenta or patentene)

1. patent

• patentere

• “patent” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Short form of Anglo-Norman lettre patente

patent n (definite singular patentet, indefinite plural patent, definite plural patenta)

1. patent

• “patent” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /ˈpa.tɛnt/

patent m inan

1. patent (official declaration that someone is the inventor of something)

• IPA^(key): /pǎtent/
• Hyphenation: pa‧tent

pàtent m (Cyrillic spelling па̀тент)

1. patent (official declaration that someone is the inventor of something)

• IPA^(key): /paˈtɛnt/

patent n

1. patent

• patentansökan
• patentanspråk
• patentbyrå
• patentera
• patentlås
• patentskydd
• patentskydda
• pantentsökt
• patentverk