Legal Definition and Related Resources of Patent
Meaning of Patent
That which is apparent on the face of an instrument . manifest , evident. At common law the grant of some privilege , property or authority by the crown to one or more individuals. Also, the instrument by which such a grant is made.
Patent Alternative Definition
A grant of some privilege, property, or authority, made by the government or sovereign of a country to one or more individuals. Phil. Pat. 1. As the term was originally used in England, it signified certain written instruments emanating from the king, and sealed with the great seal. These instruments conferred grants of lands, honors, or franchises; they were called letters patent, from being delivered open, and by way of contradistinction from instruments like the French lettres de cachet, which went out sealed. In the United States the word patent is sometimes understood to mean the title deed by which a government, either state or federal, conveys its lands. But in its more usual acceptation it is understood as referring to those instruments by which the United States secures to inventors for a limited time the exclusive use of their own inventions.
International Trade Meaning and Definition of Patent
A government grant that gives inventors exclusive right of making, using, or selling the invention.
Synonyms of Patent
adjective
- apertus
- apparent
- clarus
- clear
- conspicuous
- disclosei discoverable
- easy to be seen
- evident
- exposed
- e posed to view
- free to all
- glaring
- in full view
- in v
- e individual
- manifest
- manifestos
- noticeable
- obser
- ble
- obvious
- open
- ostensible
- overt
- perceivable
- perspicuous
- plain
- plain to be serprominent
- public
- published
- revealed
- standinguncamouflaged
- unconcealed
- undisguised
- unhide f unmasked
- unobstructed
- unshaded
- unusual
- visible wideopen
- Associated Concepts: patent ambiguity
- patent tiger
- patent defect
- patent error
- Associated Concepts: patent ambiguity
- patent tiger
- patent defect
- patent error
noun
- certificate of invention
- diplomatis
- exclusive license e elusive privilege
- exclusive right
- exclusive title
- i ernmental grant
- grant
- grant of authority
- legal rirr license
- permit
- privilege
- right
- right to profits ac ting
- use and title
- Associated Concepts: assignment of a patent
- infrir
- ment of a patent
- patent license
- patent right
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Patent in the Dictionary of Law consisting of Judicial Definitions and Explanations of Words, Phrases and Maxims
French patent; Latin patere, to lie open. Open to inspection; not closed by sealing. A “patent” is is a grant by the crown or government. Grants by the king of lands, honors, liberties, franchises, etc., are contained in charters or letters patent, that is, open letters: not sealed up, but exposed to view and addressed to his subjects at large. Other letters of the king, directed to particular persons, and for special purposes, not being proper for public inspection, are closed up and sealed on the outside: writsclose, and recorded in the close-rolls, as others are in the patent-rolls. 2 Bl. Com. 316.
Note: This legal definition of Patent in the Dictionary of Law (English and American Jurisprudence) is from 1893.
Grammar
This term is a noun.
Etimology of Patent
(You may find patent at the world legal encyclopedia and the etimology of more terms).
late 14c., “open letter or document from some authority,” shortened form of Anglo-French lettre patent (also in Medieval Latin (litteræ) patentes), literally “open letter” (late 13c.), from Old French patente (see patent (adj.)). The Letters Patent were … written upon open sheets of parchment, with the Great Seal pendent at the bottom … [while] the ‘Litteræ Clausæ,’ or Letters Close, … being of a more private nature, and addressed to one or two individuals only, were closed or folded up and sealed on the outside. [S.R. Scargill-Bird, “A Guide to the Principal Classes of Documents at the Public Record Office,” 1891] Meaning “a licence covering an invention” is from 1580s.
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Legal English Vocabulary: Patent in Spanish
Online translation of the English legal term patent into Spanish: patente (English to Spanish translation) . More about legal dictionary from english to spanish online.
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Further Reading
F. L. Vaughan, The United States Patent System: Legal and Economic Conflicts in American Patent History (1956); B. W. Bugbee, Genesis of American Patent and Copyright Law (1967); C. MacLeod, Inventing the Industrial Revolution (1989).
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Patent in Law Enforcement
Main Entry: Law Enforcement in the Legal Dictionary. This section provides, in the context of Law Enforcement, a partial definition of patent.
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- Law Enforcement Officer
- Police
- Law Enforcement Agency
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- patent in A Dictionary of Law Enforcement (Oxford University Press)
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- A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis
Patent in the Economic Activity
An introductory concept of Patent may be: a government decree giving an inventor the exclusive right to produce, use, or sell an invention
Meaning of Patent in the U.S. Legal System
Definition of Patent published by the National Association for Court Management: A government grant giving an inventor the exclusive right to make or sell his or her invention for a term of years.
Concept of Patent in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Patent: Instrument of conveyance of title to public (government) land.
Concept of Patent in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Patent: Instrument of conveyance of title to public (government) land.
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Patent in Global Commerce Policy
In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the right given to inventors to have exclusive use for a specified period for making, using or selling a new, useful, non-obvious invention. Patents are available for products and processes. See also intellectual property, Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Strasbourg Agreement Concerning the International Patent Classification.[1]
Patentin the wold Encyclopedia
For an introductory overview on international trade policy, see this entry.
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Notes and References
- Dictionary of Trade Policy, “Patent” entry (OAS)
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