1. patented - Adjective
2. patented - Verb
4. patented - Adjective Satellite
of Patent
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn our day the conventional element in literature is elaborately disguised by a law of copyright pretending that every work of art is an invention distinctive enough to be patented. Northrop Frye
Back in George W. Bush's second term, when diplomatic realism began to overtake foolish bellicosity, the president developed one of his patented nicknames for the two most powerful neoconservative journalists, William Kristol and Charles Krauthammer: he called them 'the Bomber Boys.' Joe Klein
And boy, have we patented it. Steve Jobs
What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left! Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
We fixed on No. 4, Queen Street Place, for our City offices, and it was from there that so many of my patented inventions were dated. Henry Bessemer
You're saying that you yoked the world to your patented grains and seeds, happily enslaved us all-and now you finally realize that you are dragging us all to hell. Paolo Bacigalupi