Patent (disambiguation)

A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor.

Patent may also refer to:

  • Letters patent, a type of legal instrument issued by a monarch or president, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation
  • Land patent, a land grant, such as in a patented mining claim
  • Patent leather, a shiny form of leather originally produced by a patented process
  • Patent medicine, medical compounds of questionable effectiveness sold under a variety of names and labels
  • Patent bet, in the UK, a wager on three selections and consisting of 7 separate bets
  • In botany, patent means standing normal (at 90 degrees of angle) to the axis, see glossary of botanical terms

See also
  • Plant Patent Act, legislation allowing plant breeds to be patented in the United States
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