Patent (disambiguation)
Patent stands for:
- Patent , industrial property right for the limited exclusive use of own technical inventions
- a synonym for decree in the Austrian Empire
- Certificate of competency as an officer, see officer certificate
- Certificate of competency of a navigator or marine engineer (sea patent)
- Certificate of qualification for teaching at primary school in some German-speaking cantons, see teachers' seminar #Schweiz
- cantonal authorization to practice the profession of lawyer, see legal profession in Switzerland
- Hunting license, permission to hunt in the licensed hunting system in Switzerland
- a special stitch pattern when knitting, see knitting #strick pattern
- a type of heat treatment, see patenting (heat treatment)
See also:
Wiktionary: Patent - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations