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Example sentences for "patent"

Lexicographically close words:
pated; patella; patellar; paten; patens; patentable; patented; patentee; patentees; patentes
  1. We also send, free of charge, a Synopsis of Foreign Patent Laws, showing the cost and method of securing patents in all the principal countries of the world.

  2. The inventor did not patent her invention.

  3. They might lend only a trifle to obtain a patent or a large sum to make exhaustive experiments.

  4. We, who have been reared and trained under the individualistic philosophy of the Declaration of Independence and the laisser- faire philosophy of Adam Smith, are loath to see and loath to acknowledge this patent fact of human history.

  5. All these physical characteristics are patent enough, and if they agreed with each other it would be very easy to classify mankind.

  6. Those who give credit to the allegation must of course ignore certain very patent facts which are, it will be allowed, a little difficult to get over.

  7. I hope Sir James had the prescience to patent his discovery, and reap the reward which was due to him; but, if he did, he is one amongst a thousand who never took this trouble and of whom Sic vos non vobis might well be said.

  8. To his chagrin he saw men advancing from every direction, and he was made aware of the fact that he had no patent on his idea, which had been adopted simultaneously by several hundred others.

  9. Dublin, but not a Fellow; admitted Provost by Letters Patent of George III.

  10. One was to have the Provost's patent voided by a scire facias, and the other was to deprive him of all power, authority, or revenue in the college, during his life.

  11. To him Clytemnestra announces, in words of which the irony is patent to the audience, her sufferings in the absence of her husband and her delight at the prospect of his return.

  12. Even then it had commenced to rise and fall, and had clarified its waters and colored them of the hue they now wear, and obtained a patent of heaven to be the only Walden Pond in the world and distiller of celestial dews.

  13. A patent difficulty of course is to know what to do with local and temporary customs, allusions, proverbs, &c.

  14. Thomson had taken out his patent for india-rubber tyres in 1845.

  15. Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.

  16. Disclaimer forming part of Letters Patent No.

  17. For the general construction of my fire-arms, as originally patented I refer to the Letters Patent first above named, the same being necessary to a perfect understanding of the improvements thereon, which I am now about to describe.

  18. And when the requirements of the homestead laws had been complied with and a patent to their quarter-section obtained from the Land Office in Washington, the homesteaders were ready to sell and move on to other and greener pastures.

  19. So he constructed a barge somewhat upon the principle of a patent dump-wagon, moored it to the river-bank, created a garbage monopoly in Port Agnew, and sold it for five thousand dollars to a pair of ambitious Italians.

  20. This is the patent age of new inventions," and some one might make a profit by starting a fĂȘte announcing that a drum or a gong would be provided for every individual, to be beaten in a grand universal chorus.

  21. With the various combinations, patent medicines, and so forth, the total would, I verily believe, reach eighty drugs.

  22. He must find a capitalist to work the patent for him, or he must find a man rich enough to buy it from him.

  23. For the landlord to speak of confiscation in the face of the laws of patent and of copyright seems to me the coolest impudence.

  24. At the end of that time his patent lapses and becomes public property, without any talk of compensation or any cry of confiscation.

  25. But," you may say, "Jones bought the patent from Smith.

  26. His patent never lapses; and the harder the workers work, and the more wealth inventors and workers produce, the more rent he draws--for nothing.

  27. The second cause is the superiority of the American patent law and patent office.

  28. In America the patentee gets a seventeen years' patent for L7.

  29. We allow the inventor to draw rent on his patent for fourteen years.

  30. It is the principle enforced in the patent law, in the income tax, and in the law of copyright, that the privileges and claims, even the rights of the few, must give way to the needs of the many and the welfare of the whole.

  31. At the end of that time the patent lapses, and the invention may be worked by anyone.

  32. But the truth is, of course, that his achievement consists precisely in making patent the impenetrable mystery of her, and of the tangled complex of striving and aspiration of which she is so helplessly a part.

  33. He saw no means of opening it from the inside: it was evidently secured by a patent mechanical lock of which Joseph Chestermarke presumably carried the one key.

  34. By their light he saw there was but one small keyhole to the door, and he judged from that that it was fitted with some patent mechanical lock.

  35. It was patent that I was in no state to so much as outline the preliminaries of my great undertaking.

  36. He had a patent egg-boiler on the table, with a little double-sided ladle underneath to hold the spirit.

  37. It was patent from what I have gathered that you were in an overstrung and excitable condition at that time, and that your temporary collapse was purely nervous in its character.

  38. At home they must be sitting down to dinner, her father adjusting his napkin by the patent fasteners and tilting back his head for the invariable preamble of throwing the contents of his water tumbler down at a gulp.

  39. With nervousness patent in every move, Mrs. Neugass sat forward, pleating and unpleating a little section of her apron.

  40. He sat down, an immediate tiredness out in his face, adjusting his napkin by the patent fasteners to each coat lapel.

  41. Already tuned to fear, his conscious mind, Quite disconcerted by this fresh surprise Of some detection that he could not guess, Suddenly wrote abroad on all his mien A patent full conviction of himself.

  42. There is an old saying that, if we look to the pence, the pounds will take care of themselves; and in like manner, if a few simple regulations patent to every one are attended to, health is to be attained by the bulk of mankind.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patent" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    admission; aegis; allowance; apparent; arm; authorize; axiomatic; bless; bound; brevet; buffer; bulwark; bumper; certify; champion; charter; clear; cloak; concession; condition; confine; consent; conserve; conspicuous; contain; contraceptive; copyright; cover; cushion; defend; defined; definite; diploma; discernible; discharge; discipline; dispensation; distinct; empower; enable; enfranchise; ensure; entitle; evident; exception; exemption; explicit; express; favor; fence; fend; fender; franchise; freedom; fuse; glaring; goggles; governor; grant; guarantee; guard; harbor; haven; hedge; helmet; immunity; indisputable; indubitable; indulgence; insulation; insure; interlock; keep; leave; legalize; liberty; license; lifeline; limit; maintain; manifest; marked; mask; moderate; naked; narrow; nestle; noteworthy; noticeable; observable; obvious; open; overt; pad; padding; palladium; palpable; patent; perceivable; perceptible; permission; perspicuous; pilot; plain; police; preserve; preventive; privilege; prominent; pronounced; prophylactic; protect; public; qualify; ratify; register; release; restrain; restrict; safeguard; safety; sanction; save; scant; screen; secure; sensible; shelter; shield; shroud; spare; specialize; staring; stark; stint; straightforward; straiten; support; sustain; tangible; ticket; transparent; umbrella; unambiguous; underwrite; undisguised; unequivocal; univocal; unmistakable; unquestionable; uphold; validate; visible; waiver; warrant; windshield


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    patent medicine; patent medicines; patent right