patent infringement | violation of the rights secured by a patent |
petit larceny petty larceny petty | larceny of property having a value less than some amount (the amount varies by locale) |
patent log screw log taffrail log | a cigar-shaped log with rotary fins that measure the ship's speed |
patent medicine | medicine that is protected by a patent and available without a doctor's prescription |
patent right | the right granted by a patent, especially the exclusive right to an invention |
patent ductus arteriosus | a ductus arteriosus that failed to close at birth, may require surgical correction |
patent system | a legal system for protecting the rights of inventors |
patent law | that branch of jurisprudence that studies the laws governing patents |
patent patent of invention | a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention |
patent application | an application for sole rights to an invention |
patent letters patent | an official document granting a right or privilege |
detraction petty criticism | a petty disparagement |
petit bourgeois petite bourgeoisie petty bourgeoisie | lower middle class (shopkeepers and clerical staff etc.) |
Patent and Trademark Office Database Patent Office | the government bureau in the Department of Commerce that keeps a record of patents and trademarks and grants new ones |
petty apartheid | racial segregation enforced primarily in public transportation and hotels and restaurants and other public places |
petit jury petty jury | a jury of to determine the facts and decide the issue in civil or criminal proceedings |
chief petty officer | a person with the senior noncommissioned naval rank |
petit juror petty juror | a member of a petit jury |
petty officer PO P.O. | a noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to sergeant in the Army |
senior chief petty officer SCPO | a senior noncommissioned officer in the Navy or Coast Guard with a rank comparable to master sergeant in the Army |
American spikenard petty morel life-of-man Aralia racemosa | unarmed woody rhizomatous perennial plant distinguished from wild sarsaparilla by more aromatic roots and panicled umbels, southeastern North America to Mexico |
broom tree needle furze petty whin Genista anglica | prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe |
petty spurge devil's milk Euphorbia peplus | an Old World spurge introduced as a weed in the eastern United States |
petty cash | a small fund of cash that a firm keeps for the payment of incidental expenses |
patent leather | leather with a hard glossy surface |
patent | make open to sight or notice, His behavior has patented an embarrassing fact about him |
patent | obtain a patent for, Should I patent this invention? |
patent | grant rights to, grant a patent for |
petty small-minded | contemptibly narrow in outlook, petty little comments, disgusted with their small-minded pettiness |
a fiddling footling lilliputian little niggling piddling piffling petty picayune trivial aa | (informal) small and of little importance, a fiddling sum of money, a footling gesture, our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war, a little (or small) matter, a dispute over niggling details, limited to petty enterprises, piffling efforts, giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction |
apparent evident manifest patent plain unmistakable | clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment, the effects of the drought are apparent to anyone who sees the parched fields, evident hostility, manifest disapproval, patent advantages, made his meaning plain, it is plain that he is no reactionary, in plain view |
patent | (of a bodily tube or passageway) open, affording free passage, patent ductus arteriosus |
junior-grade lower-ranking lowly petty(a) secondary subaltern | inferior in rank or status, the junior faculty, a lowly corporal, petty officialdom, a subordinate functionary |