simple past tense and past participle of patent

plural of patent

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of patent

plural of patenter

One who obtains a patent on something; a patentee.

(Britain) A medicine that is protected by a patent. / (US) Any medicine with a proprietary formula which can be bought without a prescription, irrespective of whether it is protected by a patent.

(law) Rare form of letters patent (“a type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority granting a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization”).

plural of letter patent

(law) A type of legal document in the form of an open letter issued by an authority granting a monopoly, right, status, or title to a person or organization.

A grant to an individual by letters patent of a higher social or professional position than the precedence to which their ordinary rank entitles them.