patent infringement | violation of the rights secured by a patent |
basic training | the initial period of training for new military personnel, involves intense physical activity and behavioral discipline |
basic staple | (usually plural) a necessary commodity for which demand is constant |
basic point defense missile system | a shipboard missile system |
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 |
basic cognitive process | cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge |
fundamentals basics fundamental principle basic principle bedrock | principles from which other truths can be derived, first you must learn the fundamentals, let's get down to basics |
basic assumption constatation self-evident truth | an assumption that is basic to an argument |
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 |
Basic English | a simplified form of English proposed for use as an auxiliary language for international communication, devised by C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards |
BASIC | a popular programming language that is relatively easy to learn, an acronym for beginner's all-purpose symbolic instruction code, no longer in general use |
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 |
patent leather | leather with a hard glossy surface |
basic dye basic color basic colour | a dye that is considered to be a base because the chromophore is part of a positive ion |
basic iron | pig iron containing a high percentage of phosphorus, used in making steel by a process that removes the phosphorus |
basic slag | slag produced in making steel, low in silica but having large amounts of calcium phosphate, useful as fertilizer |
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 |
basic | of or denoting or of the nature of or containing a base |
basic introductory | serving as a base or starting point, a basic course in Russian, basic training for raw recruits, a set of basic tools, an introductory art course |
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 |
basic | pertaining to or constituting a base or basis, a basic fact, the basic ingredients, basic changes in public opinion occur because of changes in priorities |
basic canonic canonical | reduced to the simplest and most significant form possible without loss of generality, a basic story line, a canonical syllable pattern |