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patent English

Meaning patent meaning

What does patent mean?
Definitions in simple English

patent Noun

— A patent is a way of protecting an invention from being stolen. — Thomas Edison had over 2000 patents.

patent Verb

— To patent means to get a patent on an invention Thomas Edison patented the light bulb and the phonograph.

patent

— noun a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention — verb obtain a patent for Should I patent this invention? — verb grant rights to; grant a patent for — verb make open to sight or notice His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him — adjective (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage patent ductus arteriosus — noun an official document granting a right or privilege — adjective (= apparent, evident, manifest, plain) clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields evident hostility manifest disapproval patent advantages made his meaning plain it is plain that he is no reactionary in plain view

Synonyms patent synonyms

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patent English » English

obvious evident apparent overt manifest clear unmistakable monopoly copyright proprietary letters patent demonstrable definite special permission plain patent of invention pat open avowed visible upfront unsoluble unreserved unobstructed unfenced unenclosed undone undisguised unconcealed trust transparent take out a patent syndicate spreading public proprietary materials proprietary articles professed privilege prerogative pending patented patent leather palpable open-ended novel monopolized monopolistic licensed letter patent

Topics patent topics

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Conjugation patent conjugation

How do you conjugate patent?

patent · verb

Examples patent examples

How do I use patent in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Hans sold the patent to a company.
I filed a patent.
I've applied for a patent on my invention.

Movie subtitles

I'm sending in the patent.
He owns a patent for a hiking cane that turns into a tourist cabin by pressing a button.
You ought to patent that, Clem.
Many years ago by grant and patent, inscribed by the King of all Spain.
This patent which gives you the title of Knight Chevalier is a small token of our gratitude.
I remember my walls were covered with black patent leather.
In a patent-leather trunk.
A new patent for a chemical formula. - So?
Candy, it's the most important patent we've ever had.
Instead of selling a patent medicine, I was selling a philosophy, a sunshine salesman.
That slob Mes Bottes stole one of my patent-leather shoes!
No patent leather at sunrise. It's too shiny.
I could sure take out a patent for this one.
I don't own the patent. I can't change it any more than you can.
My patent is basic.
Why don't you patent it?
He's going to patent it soon as he gets.
You and your patent medicine remedies.
Many years ago by grant and patent, inscribed by the king of all Spain.
Only the patent-leather shoes. no, Heinrich, I don't like them.
The inventor and patent holder of an electronic-brain machine, EMMARAC.
We used to have special patent-leather shoes made up in Dallas.
I don't own the patent.
You get this. I may be just a uniform to you, but you got no patent on feelings.
When we've won, you can take your mum to town, - and I'll take my mum to town and we'll go to the fancy stores - and get them patent leather shoes, feather boas and silk trousers.
Some overseas patent.
Cost less than patent shoes.
But in patent leather.
Fine patent leather!
All right' you may tell Garin that I'm ready to offer him 50 thousand for the patent of his invention.
I won't even give a farthing for his patent.
If you be so fond over her iniquity, give her patent to offend for if it touches not you, it comes near nobody.
Ever try considering the patent medicine business?
I was wearing my smoking jacket, my patent leather shoes.
He had on a. dress suit and patent leather shoes.

News and current affairs

The patent system may even have adverse effects on innovation, because, while the most important input into any research is prior ideas, the patent system encourages secrecy.
For example, despite widespread violent crime, Mexico and South Africa have high levels of innovation (measured by patent filing and trademark registration).
The patent system was notoriously expensive and inaccessible.
With new patent laws coming into place, India will have the same attraction for the pharmaceutical industry as it has for IT, providing clinical trials for new drugs at a quarter of the cost of Europe or the US.
As so often the case, there is no patent medicine against this syndrome.
Twenty years later the benefits are patent but it took a long time to get there despite the fact that much of what was done was right from the start.
Such explanations included government intervention or a new sort of industrial organization, and unfair patent infringements by the new producers who copied products and then blocked off their own markets from import competition.
Developments that are fundamental to European competitiveness, like an EU-wide patent, have proved impossible to achieve.
But until recently, patent law was based on a rather narrow definition of creativity, usually the kind embodied in the invention of devices or industrial processes.
The turning point in the US came in 1998, when a federal court decision upheld a patent on an accounting system, which launched a flood of business-method patents--over a thousand a year in 1999 and 2000.
The harm of inadequate patent protection in the financial world before 1998 was clear.
The recent expansion of patent protection is designed to prevent these problems and to bring a faster pace of innovation.
Of course, there are downsides to patent law expansion, prime among them the increased incidence and cost of litigation.
That is because we have created a patent system that gives innovators a temporary monopoly over what they create, which encourages them to hoard their knowledge, lest they help a competitor.
Given the benefits of preventive care, the test has become highly controversial, because its manufacturer, Myriad Genetics, holds a genetic patent that gives it a monopoly - and huge profits - on all testing.
Lastly, some argue that if farmers are permitted to sow GM varieties, they become dependent on large seed producers such as Monsanto, which have patent protection - and thus a monopoly - on the seed.
Those who oppose genetic patents claim that they also deny US constitutional rights, making this the first time a genetic patent has been challenged on human rights grounds.
One human gene out of approximately every five is now the subject of a patent, the majority of which are held by private firms.
Myriad Genetics also has tried to pursue patent rights in Europe, but there its claims have been largely rejected.
Although the gene's function in causing breast and ovarian cancer was uncovered by Cancer Research UK in 1995, Myriad, along with nearly 30 other defendants, argues that the patent is a necessary reward for its research costs.
In fact, without patent protections, the firm and its allies claim, medical research would shudder to a halt.
In 2013, for example, resident inventors in Germany filed some 917 patent applications for every million inhabitants.
Almost immediately, China became the world's top patent filer.
There was patent gloating about the German defeat everywhere, only thinly disguised behind strained expressions of solidarity.
Resident inventors in Greece, by contrast, filed just 69 patent applications for every million.
Today, many in the computer industry worry that such a patent thicket may impede software development.

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