Phrase Hound found 47 phrases and 27 compound words that contain patent. The most common are listed below. Open patent in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 47
- patent leatherLeather that has been given a high-gloss, shiny finish.
- Patent applications
- patent lawThe body of intellectual property law that grants an inventor exclusive rights for a limited time, in order to protect their new, useful, and nonobvious inventions or discoveries.
- letters patentA type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority to direct that some action be taken; to grant a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization; to record a contract.
- Patent application
- Patent-pending
- Patent infringement
- Patent rights
- Patent protection
- Patent search
- patent officeAn official organization that can issue patents.
- patent trollA company, person, etc., that owns and enforces patents in an aggressive and opportunistic manner, often with no intention of producing, marketing, or promoting the subjects of the patents.
- patent medicineA medicine that is protected by a patent.
- February PatentA constitution of the Austrian Empire promulgated in the form of letters patent on February 26, 1861.
- patent poolA consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents.
- patent fuelFuel, usually in the form of briquettes, made from fine, crushed coal with the addition of a binding agent.
- land patentAn exclusive grant of land made by a sovereign entity with respect to a particular tract of land.
- patent logA taffrail log
- patent modelA handmade miniature illustrating how an invention works, used in the early United States patent system.
- patent officesplural of patent office: An official organization that can issue patents.
- X-patentAny of the patents issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from July 1790 (its founding) to July 1836. They were destroyed in an apparently accidental fire in 1836.
- patent poolsplural of patent pool: A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents.
- patent medicinesplural of patent medicine: A medicine that is protected by a patent.
- triadic patentA patent filed in Europe (EPO), the United States (USPTO), and Japan (JPO).
- registration patentA kind of patent that takes effect even if the substantial requirements (e.g. regarding novelty) have not been fulfilled.
Compound words 27
- subpatentInfected but asymptomatic or not readily detectable.
- patentorOne who obtains a legal patent.
- nonpatentNot a patent
- antipatentOpposing patents (legal claims to inventions) or the nature of current patent law.
- biopatentA patent in the field of biology or genetics
- impatentNot patent: not open; as
- patenteseThe legal and technical jargon used in patents.
- patentholderThe holder of a patent.
- patentometricsThe statistical analysis of patents
- erectopatentHaving a position intermediate between erect and patent, or spreading.