patent on an invention
91patent — 01. Book matches were [patented] by an American inventor in 1892. 02. Pharmaceutical companies are calling on the government to protect their [patent] on prescription drugs for a minimum of 10 years. 03. The man who invented the artificial heart… …
92patent — pat|ent1 [ pætnt ] noun count * an official document that gives someone who has invented something the legal right to make or sell that invention for a particular period of time, and prevents anyone else from doing so: In 1878, Edison received a… …
93patent drawing — Visual representations of an invention that are part of a patent application, showing all the features described in the application, especially those that distinguish it from prior art. All patent applications require drawings unless the… …
94patent — [[t]pe͟ɪt(ə)nt, AM pæ̱t [/t]] patents, patenting, patented (The pronunciation [[t]pæ̱t(ə)nt[/t]] is also used for meanings 1 and 2 in British English.) 1) N COUNT A patent is an official right to be the only person or company allowed to make or… …
95Patent Commons — The Patent Commons Project was launched on November 15, 2005 by the Open Source Development Labs (OSDL). The core of the project is an online patent commons reference library aggregating and documenting information about patent related pledges… …
96Patent Act of 1790 — The Patent Act of 1790 was the United States first patent statute. [ [http://www.myoutbox.net/popch05.htm Kenneth W. Dobyns, The Patent Office Pony; A History of the Early Patent Office] ] It was entitled An Act to promote the progress of useful… …
97invention — inventional, adj. inventionless, adj. /in ven sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of inventing. 2. U.S. Patent Law. a new, useful process, machine, improvement, etc., that did not exist previously and that is recognized as the product of some unique intuition …
98patent — n 1. copyright, right, certificate of invention, Law. letters patent; trademark, registered trademark, trade name; license, permit, grant, charter, franchise. 2. invention, creation, brainchild; work, production, contrivance; process, procedure,… …
99invention — A creation of something new. Within the meaning of the patent laws:–an operation of the intellect, a product of intuition, of something akin to genius, as distinguished from mere mechanical skill. 40 Am J1st Pat § 40. A word impossible of… …
100Patent Office Building — Frontansicht des Gebäudes Innenansicht mit Modellen 1877 Das Old Patent Office Building (altes Patentamtsgebäude) ist ein Gebäude in …
