Vocabulary : Patena to Patera
Patena : A paten. ;; A grassy expanse in the hill region of Ceylon.Patency : The condition of being open, enlarged, or spread. ;; The state of being patent or evident.
Patent : Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. ;; Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter. ;; Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. ;; Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf. ;; A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party. ;; A writing securing to an invention. ;; A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands. ;; The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent. ;; To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent publi
Patentable : Suitable to be patented; capable of being patented.
Patented : of Patent
