1. • noun - a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention
   • noun - an official document granting a right or privilege
   • verb - obtain a patent for
   • verb - grant rights to
   • verb - make open to sight or notice
   • adj - (of a bodily tube or passageway) open
   • adj - clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment
2. • A grant made by a government that confers upon the creator of an invention the sole right to make, use, and sell that invention for a set period of time.
   • Letters patent.
   • An invention protected by such a grant.
   • A grant made by a government that confers on an individual feesimple title to public lands.
   • The official document of such a grant.
   • The land so granted.
   • An exclusive right or title.
   • Abbr.
   • Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent: a patent right.
   • Of, relating to, or dealing in patents: patent law.
   • Not blocked; open.
   • Spreading open; expanded.
   • Of, relating to, or being a nonprescription drug or other medical preparation that is often protected by a trademark.
   • Of high quality.
   • Open to general inspection.
   • To obtain a patent on or for (an invention, for example).
   • To invent, originate, or be the proprietor of (an idea, for example).
   • To grant a patent to or for.
3. • v - to obtain a patent (a government grant protecting the rights of an inventor) on

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