patenter

English

Etymology

From patent +‎ -er.

Noun

patenter (plural patenters)

1. One who obtains a patent on something; a patentee.
   • 1909, Men and Women of America: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries, page 1430:

     SABIN, Alvah Horton: Chemical engineer; born in Norfolk, N. Y., April 1, 1851; […] He is author of: Technology of Paint and Varnish, 1905, Painting, 1908: is the inventor and patenter of modern process by which all sugar of milk is made, the inventor of processes and materials for preventing corrosion of iron and steel.

   • 1922, Maurice Harley Weseen, Everyday Uses of English, page 315:

     A manufacturer contracted with the patenter of certain skates to make and sell these skates on a royalty basis. Included in the contract was this provision : “If in any year the royalty shall not amount to $500, then […]"

   • 2009, European Consortium for Political Research. Joint Sessions of Workshops, Politics of Intellectual Property: Contestation Over the Ownership, Use, and Control of Knowledge and Information, Edward Elgar Publishing, →ISBN, page 193:

     US patent data on organisations which have been granted 1000 or more patents ('frequent patenters') can be obtained for the period 1969 to 2006.

Anagrams

• pattener, repatent

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pa.tɑ̃.te/

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Verb

patenter

1. (law) patent
2. (Quebec) invent, make up
3. (Quebec) repair

Conjugation

Conjugation of patenter (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	patenter
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	patentant /pa.tɑ̃.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		patenté /pa.tɑ̃.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	patente /pa.tɑ̃t/	patentes /pa.tɑ̃t/	patente /pa.tɑ̃t/	patentons /pa.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/	patentez /pa.tɑ̃.te/	patentent /pa.tɑ̃t/
	imperfect	patentais /pa.tɑ̃.tɛ/	patentais /pa.tɑ̃.tɛ/	patentait /pa.tɑ̃.tɛ/	patentions /pa.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	patentiez /pa.tɑ̃.tje/	patentaient /pa.tɑ̃.tɛ/
	past historic2	patentai /pa.tɑ̃.te/	patentas /pa.tɑ̃.ta/	patenta /pa.tɑ̃.ta/	patentâmes /pa.tɑ̃.tam/	patentâtes /pa.tɑ̃.tat/	patentèrent /pa.tɑ̃.tɛʁ/
	future	patenterai /pa.tɑ̃.tʁe/	patenteras /pa.tɑ̃.tʁa/	patentera /pa.tɑ̃.tʁa/	patenterons /pa.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/	patenterez /pa.tɑ̃.tʁe/	patenteront /pa.tɑ̃.tʁɔ̃/
	conditional	patenterais /pa.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	patenterais /pa.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	patenterait /pa.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/	patenterions /pa.tɑ̃.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	patenteriez /pa.tɑ̃.tə.ʁje/	patenteraient /pa.tɑ̃.tʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	patente /pa.tɑ̃t/	patentes /pa.tɑ̃t/	patente /pa.tɑ̃t/	patentions /pa.tɑ̃.tjɔ̃/	patentiez /pa.tɑ̃.tje/	patentent /pa.tɑ̃t/
	imperfect2	patentasse /pa.tɑ̃.tas/	patentasses /pa.tɑ̃.tas/	patentât /pa.tɑ̃.ta/	patentassions /pa.tɑ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/	patentassiez /pa.tɑ̃.ta.sje/	patentassent /pa.tɑ̃.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	patente /pa.tɑ̃t/	—	patentons /pa.tɑ̃.tɔ̃/	patentez /pa.tɑ̃.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “patenter”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

German

Pronunciation

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Adjective

patenter

1. comparative degree of patent

Adjective

patenter

1. inflection of patent:
   1. strong/mixed nominative masculine singular
   2. strong genitive/dative feminine singular
   3. strong genitive plural

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• patent (of noun)

Noun

patenter n

1. indefinite plural of patent

Verb

patenter

1. imperative of patentere