Inventor protector

adjective

1. Open to public inspection
2. Protected by a trademark or a brand name so as to establish proprietary rights analogous to those conveyed by letters patent or a patent proprietary

   "patent drugs"

3. Of, relating to, or concerned with the granting of patents especially for inventions

   "a patent lawyer"

4. Making exclusive or proprietary claims or pretensions

   "peddled his patent notions in season and out"

5. Affording free passage unobstructed

   "a patent opening"

6. Patulous, spreading

   "a patent calyx"

7. Accessible, exposed
8. Readily visible or intelligible obvious

   "his patent sincerity"

noun

1. An official document conferring a right or privilege letters patent
2. A writing securing for a term of years the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention
3. The monopoly or right so granted
4. A patented invention
5. Privilege, license
6. An instrument making a conveyance of public lands
7. Patent leather

verb

1. To obtain or grant a patent right to
2. To grant a privilege, right, or license to by patent
3. To obtain or secure by patent

noun

1. A high-grade wheat flour that consists solely of endosperm

noun

1. A leather with a hard smooth glossy surface

noun

1. A nonprescription medicinal preparation that is typically protected by a trademark and whose contents are incompletely disclosed

noun

1. A government office for examining claims to patents and granting patents

noun

1. A right granted by letters patent

plural noun

1. A writing (as from a sovereign) that confers on a designated person a grant in a form open for public inspection

idiom

1. To obtain a patent (an official document that gives a person or company the right to be the only one that makes or sells a product for a certain period of time) for

   "They want to take out a patent on the process."