Patent (disambiguation)
A patent is an intellectual property right covering an invention.
Patent can also refer to the following:
Types of patents
Types of patents
- Utility patent for inventions that do something useful such as apparatus, methods, processes, and new chemicals, plants, animals, bacteria, and genes
- Biological patent
- Chemical patent
Other uses
Other uses
- In medicine and biology, patent implies open, unobstructed, expanded, e.g. patent ductus arteriosus.
- Patent medicine
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