Open; manifest; evident. In the sale of Personal Property, a patent defect is one that is clearly visible or that can be discovered by an inspection made by a person exercising ...

patent, in law, governmental grant of some privilege, property, or authority. Today patent refers to the granting to the inventor of a useful product or process the privilege to ...

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adjective. open to examination by the public: said of a document granting some right or rights, as to land, a franchise, an office, or, now esp., an invention letters patent ...

Patent and trademark information in the United States, including free database searching of registered trademarks, registration information, pricing and contact phone numbers.

A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention. The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the extent of the exclusive rights vary widely between countries according to national laws and international agreements.Defin ition · Etymology · Law · Economics · History