1. the official legal exclusive right to make or sell an invention for a set period of time 2. easily recognizable; obvious 3. open and unobstructed; failing to close; exposed; typically used in the medical context to describe a vessel, duct, or aperture Note: originates from the Latin patere, which means 'to lay open'
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In 1971, a struggling nightclub drummer named Daisuke Inoue built the first karaoke machine in his home city of Kobe using a tape recorder, a coin box, and an amplifier — and by not bothering to patent his invention because he thought he had merely combined other people’s parts, he lost roughly 100…
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Jaume Lamarca
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#taldiacomavui el IV del VII del MDCCCXXXVIII el físic científic i inventor anglès Edward Davy va rebre la patent per un telègraf elèctric que feia servir un relé que utilitzava una agulla magnètica que es submergia en un contacte de mercuri quan un corrent elèctric passava per la bobina circumdant
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Zach Tarvin
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There's something depressing in Domino's having a whole patent on a pizza tracker, but there are no widgets or Live Activities for it in the app.
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