A patent is a set of rights granted by a government to an inventor.
Patent may also refer to:
- Letters patent, a type of legal instrument issued by a monarch or president, generally granting an office, right, monopoly, title, or status to a person or corporation
- Land patent, a land grant, such as in a patented mining claim
- Patent leather, a shiny form of leather originally produced by a patented process
- Patent medicine, medical compounds of questionable effectiveness sold under a variety of names and labels
- Patent bet, in the UK, a wager on three selections and consisting of 7 separate bets
- In botany, patent means standing normal (at 90 degrees of angle) to the axis, see glossary of botanical terms
See also
- Plant Patent Act, legislation allowing plant breeds to be patented in the United States