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Plural of patent

regular plural

The plural of patent is patents.

Forms of patent

Singularpatent /ˈpeɪtənt/
Pluralpatents
Countablecountable and uncountable

Patents in a sentence

  • Our product designs around the existing patents to avoid infringing them.From the entry around
  • Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap.From the entry build a better mousetrap
  • The Belgian, Dutch and French patents are examples of registration patents.From the entry registration patent
  • WIPO reported that China had 17 of the top 20 academic organizations filing for AI-related patents.2019 February 3, “UN Study: China, US, Japan Lead World AI Development”, in Voice of America, archived from the original on 07 Feb 2019. From the entry related
  • Although intellectual property rights, such as patents, are highly observable, they are mostly limited to product technologies.2008, David J. Teece, Technological Know-how, Organizational Capabilities, and Strategic Management. From the entry observable

Meaning of patent

  1. noun An official document granting an appointment, privilege, or right, or some property or title; letters patent.
  2. noun A grant of a monopoly over the manufacture, sale, and use of goods.
  3. noun A declaration issued by a government agency that the inventor of a new invention has the sole privilege of making, selling, or using the claimed invention for a specified period.

Full definition of patent

Questions about the plural of patent

What is the plural of patent?
The plural of patent is patents.
Is patent countable?
Patent is a countable and uncountable noun.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: patent (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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