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Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th
patent
pa·tent [patent patents patented patenting] noun, adjective, verb
noun BrE [ˈpætnt] ; [ˈpeɪtnt] ; NAmE [ˈpætnt] countable, uncountable
an official right to be the only person to make, use or sell a product or an invention; a document that proves this
•to apply for/obtain a patent on an invention
•The device was protected by patent.
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin patent- ‘lying open’, from the verb patere. The noun sense is from letters patent.
Example Bank:
•Edison took out a patent on the light bulb.
•Genetically engineered plants can be protected by patent.
•In 1843 Bain filed a patent for his fax machine.
•In 1995 he was granted a patent for his invention.
•The item is Patent Pending No. 11092001.
•a leading authority on patent law
adjective BrE [ˈpeɪtnt] ; NAmE [ˈpeɪtnt] ; [ˈpætnt] only before noun
1. connected with a ↑patent
•patent applications/laws
•the US Patent Office
2. (of a product)made or sold by a particular company
•patent medicines
3. (formal)used to emphasize that sth bad is very clear and obvious
Syn: ↑blatant
•It was a patent lie.
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin patent- ‘lying open’, from the verb patere. The noun sense is from letters patent.
verb BrE [ˈpætnt] ; [ˈpeɪtnt] ; NAmE [ˈpætnt] ~ sth
to obtain a ↑patent for an invention or a process
Verb forms: 
Word Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin patent- ‘lying open’, from the verb patere. The noun sense is from letters patent.
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