to patent an invention
91patent — 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… …
92patent 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… …
93patent right — A right under a patent obtained for an invention, held by the patentee or an assignee. In its usual signification, the term means, a privilege granted by the government to the first inventor of a new and useful discovery or mode of manufacture… …
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,… …
99Patent Office Building — Frontansicht des Gebäudes Innenansicht mit Modellen 1877 Das Old Patent Office Building (altes Patentamtsgebäude) ist ein Gebäude in …
100patent — [14] Etymologically, patent means simply ‘open’. Its ultimate source is patēns, the present participle of the Latin verb patēre ‘be open’ (a relative of English fathom and petal). It was used particularly in the term letters patent, which denoted …
