Patent vs. Proprietary

Patentnoun

A declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.

Patentnoun

A specific grant of ownership of a piece of property; a land patent.

Patentnoun

License; formal permission.

Patentnoun

Patent leather: a varnished, high-gloss leather typically used for shoes and accessories.

Patentverb

To successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.

Patentadjective

(biology) Open, unobstructed, expanded.

Patentadjective

Explicit and obvious.

Patentadjective

(of flour) That is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm.

Patentadjective

Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.

Patentadjective

Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.

Patentadjective

Protected by a legal patent.

Patentadjective

Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.

Patentadjective

Open to public perusal; - said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.

Patentadjective

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.

Patentadjective

Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.

Patentnoun

A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.

Patentnoun

The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.

Patentverb

To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.

Patentnoun

a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention

Patentnoun

an official document granting a right or privilege

Patentverb

obtain a patent for;

Patentverb

grant rights to; grant a patent for

Patentverb

make open to sight or notice;

Patentadjective

(of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage;

Patentadjective

clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses;

Patentnoun

a government authority or licence conferring a right or title for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention

Patentnoun

patent leather

Patentadjective

easily recognizable; obvious

Patentadjective

(of a vessel, duct, or aperture) open and unobstructed; failing to close

Patentadjective

(of a parasitic infection) showing detectable parasites in the tissues or faeces

Patentadjective

made and marketed under a patent; proprietary

Patentverb

obtain a patent for (an invention)

Patent

A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someone infringing the patent in order to enforce his or her rights.

Proprietaryadjective

Of or relating to property or ownership.

Proprietaryadjective

Owning something; having ownership.

Proprietaryadjective

Created or manufactured exclusively by the owner of intellectual property rights, as with a patent or trade secret.

Proprietaryadjective

Nonstandard and controlled by one particular organization.

Proprietaryadjective

Privately owned.

Proprietaryadjective

Possessive, jealous, or territorial.

Proprietarynoun

A proprietor or owner.

Proprietarynoun

A body of proprietors, taken collectively.

Proprietarynoun

The rights of a proprietor.

Proprietarynoun

A monk who had reserved goods and belongings to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Proprietarynoun

A proprietor or owner; one who has exclusive title to a thing; one who possesses, or holds the title to, a thing in his own right.

Proprietarynoun

A body proprietors, taken collectively.

Proprietarynoun

A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

Proprietaryadjective

Belonging, or pertaining, to a proprietor; considered as property; owned; as, proprietary medicine.

Proprietarynoun

an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits

Proprietaryadjective

protected by trademark or patent or copyright; made or produced or distributed by one having exclusive rights;

Proprietaryadjective

relating to an owner or ownership

Proprietaryadjective

behaving as if one owned something or someone

Proprietaryadjective

(of a product) marketed under and protected by a registered trade name