Patent (disambiguation)
Topics referred to by the same term / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor.
For the Wikipedia template, see Template:Patent.
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