Scrabble?! PATENT

Definitions of PATENT in various dictionaries:

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

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.

verb - to obtain a patent (a government grant protecting the rights of an inventor) on