patent是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 the official legal right to make or sell an invention for a particular number of years -- 專利權

  • In 1880 Alexander Graham Bell was granted a patent on an apparatus for signalling and communicating called a Photophone. 亞歷山大‧格拉漢姆‧貝爾發明了一個可用來發送和傳輸訊號，稱為「光線電話」的裝置，並於1880年獲授了此裝置的專利權。

  • The company took out/filed a patent on a genetically engineered tomato. 該公司取得／申請了一項基因改造番茄的專利權。

• 1 →  patent leather -- （見patent leather）

• 2 to get the official legal right to make or sell an invention -- 申請專利

  • If you don't patent your invention, other people may make all the profit out of it. 如果你不為你的發明申請專利權，其他人就會從中圖利。

• 3 very obvious -- 顯然的，顯而易見的

  • a patent lie 昭然若揭的謊言

  • a patent disregard of the law 對法律的公然漠視

  • "No," he replied, with patent distaste. 「不，」他回答道，語氣明顯地流露出厭惡感。

• 4 A patent invention is protected by law so that only particular people or companies have the right to make or sell it. -- 專利權

  • a patent screwdriver 獲專利的螺絲起子