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pat⋅ent

  [pat-nt or, for 10, 12–15, peyt-; especially Brit. peyt-nt]
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–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.
5. patent leather.
–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 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.
Origin:
1250–1300; (adj.) ME < L patent- (s. of patēns) open, orig. prp. of patēre to stand wide open; (n.) ME, short for letters patent, trans. of ML litterae patentēs open letters

Related forms:
pat⋅ent⋅a⋅ble, adjective
pat⋅ent⋅a⋅bil⋅i⋅ty, noun
pat⋅ent⋅a⋅bly, adverb
pa⋅tent⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
10. clear, palpable, conspicuous, unconcealed. See apparent.

Antonyms:
10. dim, obscure, hidden.
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pat·ent   (pāt'nt)   
n.  

    1. 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.

    2. Letters patent.

    3. An invention protected by such a grant.

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

    5. The official document of such a grant.

    6. The land so granted.

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

    2. The official document of such a grant.

    3. The land so granted.

  3. An exclusive right or title.

adj.  

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

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

    3. Not blocked; open.

    4. Spreading open; expanded.

  2. also (pāt'nt) Obvious; plain. See Synonyms at apparent.

  3. (pāt'nt) Biology

    1. Not blocked; open.

    2. Spreading open; expanded.

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

  5. Of high quality. Used of flour.

  6. also (pāt'nt) Archaic Open to general inspection. Used especially of documents.

tr.v.   pat·ent·ed, pat·ent·ing, pat·ents

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

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

  3. To grant a patent to or for.


[Middle English, document granting a right, short for (lettre) patent, open (letter), from Old French (lettre) patente, from Latin patēns, patent-, open, present participle of patēre, to be open; see petə- in Indo-European roots.]
pat'ent·a·bil'i·ty n., pat'ent·a·ble adj.
pat·ent·ed   (pāt'n-tĭd)   
adj.  

  1. Characteristic of, unique to, or originated by a particular person or group: Throughout the campaign, the candidate refuted his rival's criticisms with a series of patented responses.

  2. Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patented process.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

patent  (n.)
1376, "open letter or document from some authority," shortened form of Anglo-Fr. lettre patent (also in M.L. (litteræ) patentes), lit. "open letter" (1292), from O.Fr. patente (adj.), from L. patentum (nom. patens) "open, lying open," prp. of patere "lie open, be open," from PIE *pet- "to spread" (cf. Gk. petannynai "to spread out," petalon "leaf," O.N. faðmr "embrace, bosom," O.E. fæðm "embrace, fathom").
"The Letters Patent were ... written upon open sheets of parchment, with the Great Seal pendent at the bottom ... [while] the 'Litteræ Clausæ,' or Letters Close, ... being of a more private nature, and addressed to one or two individuals only, were closed or folded up and sealed on the outside." [S.R. Scargill-Bird, "A Guide to the Principal Classes of Documents at the Public Record Office," 1891]
The adj. sense of "open to view, plain, clear" is first recorded 1508; the verb "to obtain right to land" is attested from 1675. The meaning "copyright an invention" is first recorded 1822, from earlier meaning "obtain exclusive right or monopoly" (1789), a privilege granted by the Crown via letters patent.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: pat·ent
Function: transitive verb
: to obtain or grant a right to (something) by a patent patented to the railroad>; specifically : to protect the rights to (an invention) by a patent patented>
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pa·tent
Pronunciation: 'pat-&nt, Brit usu 'pAt-
Function: noun
1 : protected by a trademark or a trade nameso as to establish proprietary rights analogous to those conveyed by a patent : PROPRIETARY <patentdrugs>
2Pronunciation: 'pAt-
: affording free passage : being open and unobstructed patent with no pathological discharge—Journal of the American Medical Association>
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Medical Dictionary

patent pat·ent (pāt'nt)
n.

  1. 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.

  2. An invention protected by such a grant.

adj.

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

  2. (pāt'nt) Not blocked; open.

  3. (pāt'nt ) Spreading open; expanded.

v. pat·ent·ed, pat·ent·ing, pat·ents

  1. To obtain a patent on or for something, such as an invention.

  2. To invent, originate, or be the proprietor of an idea.

  3. To grant a patent to somone or for something.

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