Patent synonyms
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Part of speech:
Inhibited or restrained in one's words and actions.
Concerning a product for which a patent has been obtained
To ensure the safety or integrity of; protect or preserve:
letters-patent
A document granting a patent for an invention.
(--- Chiefly Brit.) Designating a company in which the liability of its shareholders is similarly restricted
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copyrighted
(Law) Covered by a copyright, not public domain.
(Figuratively) Referring to a membership organisation, service or product: of high quality and/or reknown, for superior members only. A snobbish usage, suggesting that members who do not meet requirements, which may be financial, of celebrity, religion, skin colour etc., are excluded.
Easily perceived or understood; obvious.
Ready to transact business:
Discerning or perceiving easily; keen:
patent right
An exclusive right established by patent, esp. the right to an invention
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The act of protecting.
(--- Cdn.) A government grant of land forming a subdivision of a township
A device used to adjust or control
A right to enter onto land or property and use it, without any ownership rights being conferred.
The exclusive statutory right of literary (authors, playwrights, poets), musical (composers, musicians), visual (painters, photographers, sculptors), and other artists to control the reproduction, use, and disposition of their work, usually for their lifetime plus seventy years. The Copyright Act of 1976 governs most copyrights in the United States. See also copy and fair use.
Privilege is a right or advantage that you have others may not have.
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The document or provision in a document by which a grant is made.
A written grant from the sovereign power of a country conferring certain rights and privileges on a person, a corporation, or the people:
The establishment of a corporation, including the granting of certain privileges such as exemption from individual liability for the acts of the corporation.
To make secure (in all the above senses).
To confine or restrict with a limit:
To refuse to admit, consider, include, etc.; shut out; keep from entering, happening, or being; reject; bar
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To enter in an official register.
free (antonym)
Not subject to a given condition; exempt:
unpatented (antonym)
Not patented.
uncontrolled (antonym)
Not under control, discipline, or governance.
obvious (related)
(Obs.) Being in the way
monopoly (related)
An exclusive control over the trade or production of a commodity or service through exclusive possession.
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A list of railroad cars according to owner and location.
A broad level expanse, as a part of the sea floor or a lunar mare.
(Chess) one of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard [the corresponding term for a vertical line is "file"].
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inconspicuous (antonym)
Not prominent nor easily noticeable
unobtrusive (antonym)
Not noticeable or blatant; inconspicuous.
Plain and clear; obvious:
Unique, such that it cannot be mistaken for something else.
Not ambiguous; clear and obvious:
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Absolutely clear; pellucid:
Worth noticing; significant
Possible to observe:
Strongly marked; distinct:
On hand or available
see (related)
Easily seen through due to a lack of subtlety
patent (of invention)
The granting of a right or authority by the federal government; the document granting that right or authority; an exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention granted to the inventor of a unique device or process for a specified period of time (usually 20 years). See new and useful.
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patents (related)
uspto (related)
RiceTec (related)
intellectual property (related)
morphosys (related)
proprietary (related)
Intermind (related)
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elcomsoft (related)
computer-implemented (related)
Protected or conferred by a patent or letters patent:
To put a trademark on (a product)
concealed (antonym)
unconcealed, conspicuous
hidden (antonym)
The definition of hidden is concealed.
patent-medicine (related)
produced or sold as a proprietary product
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