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Patent Office   /pˈætənt ˈɔfəs/   Listen
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Patent  adj.  
1.
Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous. "He had received instructions, both patent and secret."
2.
Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
3.
Appropriated or protected by letters patent; secured by official authority to the exclusive possession, control, and disposal of some person or party; patented; as, a patent right; patent medicines. "Madder... in King Charles the First's time, was made a patent commodity."
4.
(Bot.) Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
Patent leather, a varnished or lacquered leather, used for boots and shoes, and in carriage and harness work.
Patent office, a government bureau for the examination of inventions and the granting of patents.
Patent right.
(a)
The exclusive right to an invention, and the control of its manufacture.
(b)
(Law) The right, granted by the sovereign, of exclusive control of some business of manufacture, or of the sale of certain articles, or of certain offices or prerogatives.
Patent rolls, the registers, or records, of patents.






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"Patent office" Quotes from Famous Books



... ye wherein I'll go ye," said Droop, with sudden animation. "You give me that certificate, that bill of sale, you mentioned, and also a first-class letter to some lord or political chap with a pull at the Patent Office, an' I'll change clothes with ye an' fool them ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... In the Patent Office Report for 1851, at page 14, may be found an article entitled, "Well-digging," in which it is gravely contended, and not without a fair show of evidence, that certain persons possess the power of indicating, by means of a ...
— Farm drainage • Henry Flagg French

... Barry to pass the Bar examination. All of the men of our family have been lawyers, But Barry won't study, and he has taken a position in the Patent Office. He's wasting these best years ...
— Contrary Mary • Temple Bailey

... mechanical principles and their workings, and in May, 1849, patented a device for lifting vessels over shoals, which had evidently been dormant in his mind since the days of his early Mississippi River experiences. The little model of a boat, whittled out with his own hand, that he sent to the Patent Office when he filed his application, is still shown to visitors, though the invention itself failed to bring about any ...
— The Boys' Life of Abraham Lincoln • Helen Nicolay

... correspondence was established with the family of Mrs. Martha Ellicott Tyson, of Baltimore. One of her descendants, Mrs. Tyson Manly, kindly came over from Baltimore, and, calling on the writer at the United States Patent Office, presented him with a copy of the life of Banneker, published in Philadelphia in 1884, and compiled from the papers of Martha Ellicott Tyson, who was the daughter of George Ellicott, a member of the noted Maryland family, who established ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 • Various


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