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What is the adjective for patent?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb patent which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

patent
  1. (biology) open, unobstructed, expanded.
  2. explicit and obvious.
  3. (of flour) that is fine, and consists mostly of the inner part of the endosperm
  4. Open; unconcealed; conspicuous.
  5. Open to public perusal; said of a document conferring some right or privilege.
  6. Protected by a legal patent.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “What seems to plague both of these films and so many like them is their patent insincerity.”
      “It benefits from a tax-free patent income scheme which allows it to retain earnings.”
patentable
  1. (law) Able to be protected by a patent; for which a patent can be granted.
  2. Examples:
    1. “It is four years since a court held that software and business methods were patentable.”
      “Debates over what is patentable typically revolve around questions of isolable genes and gene sequences.”
      “If basic scientific findings were patentable, the tracing problem would be particularly acute.”
patentlike
  1. Having some characteristics of a patent.
patented
patentless
  1. Without a patent or patents.
patentest
  1. superlative form of patent: most patent
patenting
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