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patent
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: protected by a trademark or a trade name so as to establish proprietary rights analogous to those conveyed by a patent : proprietary <patent drugs>
2
\ˈpāt-\
: affording free passage : being open and unobstructed <the nose patent with no pathological discharge — Journal of the American Medical Association>
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