Patent (disambiguation)
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A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor.
Patent may also refer to:
- Letters patent, a type of legal instrument issued by a monarch or president
- Land patent, a land grant, such as in a patented mining claim
- Patent leather, a shiny form of leather
- Patent medicine, a medical compound of questionable effectiveness
- Patent bet, in the UK, a type of wager
- A botanical term
See also
[edit]- Plant Patent Act of 1930, legislation allowing plant breeds to be patented in the United States
- All pages with titles beginning with Patent