ALL meanings of unpatented
pat·ent
U u - noun unpatented the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years. 1
- noun unpatented an invention or process protected by this right. 1
- noun unpatented an official document conferring such a right; letters patent. 1
- noun unpatented the instrument by which the government of the United States conveys the legal fee-simple title to public land. 1
- noun unpatented patent leather. 1
- adjective unpatented protected by a patent; patented: a patent cooling device. 1
- adjective unpatented pertaining to, concerned with, or dealing with patents, especially on inventions: a patent attorney; patent law. 1
- adjective unpatented conferred by a patent, as a right or privilege. 1
- adjective unpatented holding a patent, as a person. 1
- adjective unpatented readily open to notice or observation; evident; obvious: a patent breach of good manners. 1
- adjective unpatented made of patent leather: patent shoes. 1
- adjective unpatented lying open; not enclosed or shut in: a patent field. 1
- adjective unpatented Chiefly Botany. expanded or spreading. 1
- adjective unpatented open, as a doorway or a passage. 1
- adjective unpatented Phonetics. open, in various degrees, to the passage of the breath stream. 1
- verb with object unpatented to take out a patent on; obtain the exclusive rights to (an invention, process, etc.) by a patent. 1
- verb with object unpatented to originate and establish as one's own. 1
- verb with object unpatented Metallurgy. to heat and quench (wire) so as to prepare for cold-drawing. 1
- verb with object unpatented to grant (public land) by a patent. 1
- adjective unpatented not protected by patent 0