OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 23153

patent

/ˈpeɪtənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
patente
Explicit and obvious.
Again we read at page 174: “Instead of the Universal Roman Catholic Church there existed after 1650 the National Catholic Churches of Spain, France, Austria, Poland, etc. more subj…
Those claims are patent nonsense.
📚 noun • entry_id 23151

patent

/ˈpeɪtənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
patente
A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.
The patent situation, too, played a part in this, as often a firm sought to produce something which would achieve a given result, and yet not infringe a patent held by another; or…
The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June…
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 23152

patent

/ˈpeɪtənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
patentar
To (successfully) register (a new invention) with a government agency to obtain the sole privilege of its manufacture, sale, and use for a specified period.
The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to pati…
To his great credit, Manson refused to patent his invention, as he desired to remove any obstacle to its adoption by other companies.