right to a patent
81Patent — A government license that gives the holder exclusive rights to a process, design or new invention for a designated period of time. Allpications for patents are usually handled by a government agency. In the U.S. the United States Patent and… …
82patent — 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,… …
83patent foramen ovale — (PFO) a type of septal defect consisting of abnormal persistence of the fetal foramen ovale cordis after birth, often resulting in a left to right or right to left shunt …
84Patent and Trademark Office — the US government department that decides who should be given patents (= official documents that give people the right to make, use or sell an invention, and stop other people from copying them). * * * …
85patent — Documented exclusive legal right to a process …
86patent — A legal permission to hold exclusive right for a defined period of time to manufacture, use or sell an invention …
87patent and copyright clause — Art. I, Sec. 8, cl. 8, U.S. Constitution, which provides for promoting the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries …
88Glossary of patent legal concepts — Patent law (patents for inventions) …
89Continuing patent application — Under United States patent law, a continuing patent application is a patent application which follows, and claims priority to, an earlier filed patent application. A continuing patent application may be one of three types: a continuation,… …
90Letters patent — Letter Let ter, n. [OE. lettre, F. lettre, OF. letre, fr. L. littera, litera, a letter; pl., an epistle, a writing, literature, fr. linere, litum, to besmear, to spread or rub over; because one of the earliest modes of writing was by graving the… …
