Clues for the word "PATENT"
We've had 85 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 165 times in crosswords. It was last seen in King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph crossword on February 21, 2024.
Definition of patent
- a. - Open; expanded; evident; apparent; unconcealed; manifest; public; conspicuous.
- a. - Open to public perusal; -- said of a document conferring some right or privilege; as, letters patent. See Letters patent, under 3d Letter.
- a. - 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.
- a. - Spreading; forming a nearly right angle with the steam or branch; as, a patent leaf.
- a. - A letter patent, or letters patent; an official document, issued by a sovereign power, conferring a right or privilege on some person or party.
- a. - A writing securing to an invention.
- a. - A document making a grant and conveyance of public lands.
- a. - The right or privilege conferred by such a document; hence, figuratively, a right, privilege, or license of the nature of a patent.
- v. t. - To grant by patent; to make the subject of a patent; to secure or protect by patent; as, to patent an invention; to patent public lands.
Referring Clues
- It may be pending
- Kind of lawyer
- Clear
- Inventor's desire
- Obvious
- Manifest
- ___ leather
- Brainchild protector
- Unmistakable
- Inventor's goal
- Lincoln is the only U.S. president to have one
- Kind of examiner 56-Across was
- Lincoln is the only U.S. president ever to receive one of these
- Inventor's protection
- Protection authorized in 1790
- Invention protection
- Document for Edison
- Inventor's possession
- ___ leather (shoe material)
- Inventor's document
- Inventor's legal document
- Edison accomplishment, frequently
- Unconcealed
- Type of lawyer
- My grandfather registered one for a voltage regulator circuit
- Inventor's claim
- Gadget protector
- Gizmo protector
- Inventor's insurance
- Gadgeteer's acquisition
- Shiny leather
- Inventor's milestone
- Document for 1-Across
- Inventor's paper
- Inventor's quest
- One of Edison's 1,000-plus
- Plain as day
- Recognition not sought by Benjamin Franklin
- Possibly pending protection
- Item authorized by Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution
- Properietary product
- Proprietary product
- Copyright
- Conspicuous
- It lasts 20 years
- Exclusive license of a sort
- It protects an inventor's rights, that's obvious
- Father's mobile home - it's obvious
- Legal rights to an invention
- Clear case, not egocentric?
- Proprietary - that's very clear
- Head's not empty - is that clear?
- An obvious attempt to discourage imitators
- Shut up at the inside: that's clear
- A safeguard against pirates: that's clear
- Dad takes shelter, that's clear
- Flagrant licence
- A knockabout number; that's clear
- Dad takes shelter, that's obvious
- Sole right to exploit an invention
- Obvious - property right to invention
- Obvious case, one dismissed
- 9 is invalid without one
- Rubbish seen round temporary dwelling - the conclusion? Don't copy it
- Head, not heart, missing - it's obvious
- Perfectly round number, that's clear
- For all to see
- Licence to make product for iodine-deficient hospital inmate
- Father in need of sheltered accommodation? That's very evident
- Visible invisible
- Open Dad's wine
- Copyright?
- A form of protection, that's clear
- Open
- Copyright's cousin
- ... providing clear evidence of invention
- Entrepreneur's protection
- One of Edison's 1,093
- Any of Edison's 1,000+
- Protection for an idea
- Proprietary – that's evident
- George Washington signed America's first one in 1790
- It's easy to see dad going to the pavilion
- Inventor's right
- Easily recognizable
Last Seen In
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - February 21, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 03, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - December 12, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - November 19, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 20, 2023
- Mirror Daily - September 04, 2023
- Evening Standard Quick - July 25, 2023
- New York Times - July 23, 2023
- Mirror Daily - July 09, 2023
- USA Today - June 29, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 31, 2023
- Penny Dell Sunday - May 14, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 20, 2023
- Mirror Daily - April 19, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - April 12, 2023
- Mirror Daily - April 06, 2023
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 01, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 07, 2022
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - October 29, 2022
- New York Times - June 14, 2022
- Mirror Daily - February 01, 2018
- Washington Post Classic - January 28, 2018
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - January 18, 2018
- Netword - January 07, 2018
- Mirror Classic - December 19, 2017
- Guardian Speedy - November 19, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - November 02, 2017
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - October 26, 2017
- Evening Standard Easy - October 04, 2017
- New York Times - August 08, 2017
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