Synonym: apparent, evident, letters patent, manifest, patent of invention, plain, unmistakable. Similar words: spate, patient, anticipate, participate, tent, threaten, intent, extent. Meaning: ['pætnt /'peɪtnt] 
n. 1. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention 2. an official document granting a right or privilege. v. 1. obtain a patent for 2. grant rights to; grant a patent for 3. make open to sight or notice. adj. 1. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage 2. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment.
n. 1. a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention 2. an official document granting a right or privilege. v. 1. obtain a patent for 2. grant rights to; grant a patent for 3. make open to sight or notice. adj. 1. (of a bodily tube or passageway) open; affording free passage 2. clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment. 
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91. Does he hold the patent on himself, so that every part of him is his, and only his?
92. Taken on to sell insurance, patent medicines and beauty products, I sold my own animals and bought an old bicycle.
93. They were granted the first patent on the airplane in 1906.
94. The health ministry says it is forced to buy more expensive medicines from the big drug manufacturers because of international patent agreements.
95. He reached centre-stage and crossed one leg in front of the other - patent leather pumps whining in the glow from the footlights.
96. Roebuck acquiring a two-thirds interest in Watt's patent for his financial help.
97. The price review board was set up as a result of the new patent legislation.
98. In 1519 Vertue gave up his patent as king's mason and became joint master with Redman.
99. Last April,(sentencedict.com) Kantor identified 38 countries who either denied protection of intellectual property or supported copyright and patent piracy.
100. The patent lists six inventors who worked on the system.
101. And black patent leather tap shoes covered her most famous toes, which nobody realized yet were famous.
102. In some cases a patentee can be compelled to grant a licence to use his patent on reasonable terms.
103. This was patent nonsense.
104. To appear round and full was to exhibit the characteristics of prosperity and the patent outcome of regular meals.
105. Like a vile-tasting patent medicine, they appreciate the need for treatment, but find it hard to swallow.
106. No patent remedy exists for these, no chicken soup for the soul, however much we may yearn for ready comfort.
107. Most of this century's scientific advances stemmed from intellectual curiosity, not a desire to patent.
108. Further confusing the picture, courts have also expanded the patent coverage for software.
109. D infringes the patent for the computer chips, regardless of knowledge.
110. GRiD also holds the Patent on the idea of a fold-up screen which is part of every laptop, or notebook computer.
110. Wish you can benefit from sentencedict.com and make progress everyday!
111. Bristol-Myers Squibb holds the patent on stavudine under the brand name Zerit.
112. Now, when I stopped at the Emporium, I looked at the patent medicine display first.
113. A record 5-year high in the number of published patent applications is indicative of the increased level of innovation throughout the company.
114. When found, she was wearing a pink floral dress, lilac tights, a white cardigan and black patent leather shoes.
115. Roebuck was very interested in Watt's invention and suggested that he take out a patent for it.
116. There is always some magic remedy that will cure it, or some whizz-kid quack with a patent method.
117. In 1895 he proposed to Congress that the Patent Office be closed because all the great inventions had already been discovered.
118. He had sorted the boxes of patent medicines and stacked them in one corner away from the cartons of collar studs and bootlaces.
119. But Geron and the Roslin scientists could at last assure investors that the patent question was finally settled.
120. The university patent counsel had heard about it and thought it would make lots of money in clinical laboratories.
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