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| letters patent |
a government-issued document granting a person a patent or exclusive right to sell or otherwise profit from an invention or process. |
| Mary Janes |
trademark for a girl's patent leather low-heeled dress shoe having a strap that crosses the instep. |
| medicine show |
a usu. small group of traveling salespeople who put on entertaining shows to attract customers for the patent medicines and other cures offered for sale. |
| pat. |
abbreviation of "patent" or "patented." |
| patency |
the state of being plain, obvious, or patent. [1/2 definitions] |
| patent |
a government grant that gives someone the right to make, use, or sell an invention. A patent is given for a certain number of years. [2 definitions] |
| patentable |
combined form of patent. |
| patented |
having a patent, a legal protection that allows an inventor the sole rights to make, use, or sell what he or she has invented for a particular period of time. |
| patentee |
a person or other entity that has been granted a patent. |
| patent office |
in the U.S. government, an agency of the Department of Commerce that administers the patent and trademark laws; Patent and Trademark Office. |
| patentor |
the issuer of a patent. |
| patent right |
an exclusive right conferred by a patent, esp. to manufacture and sell an invention. |
| pat. pend. |
abbreviation of "patent pending." |
| prop. |
abbreviation of "proprietor," an owner of an exclusive legal right or title to something, as under a patent or trademark. [1/2 definitions] |
| proprietary |
property owned, such as real estate or a drug that is under a patent or trademark. [1/6 definitions] |
| proprietor |
an owner of an exclusive legal right or title to something, as under a patent or trademark. [1/2 definitions] |
| public domain |
the legal status of a work or product on which the patent or copyright has expired. [1/2 definitions] |
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