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patent

Summary

patent ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,650 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • patent is a type of intellectual property[2].
  • patent is a type of scientific publication[3].
  • patent's Commons category is recorded as Patents[4].
  • patent comprises patent application form[5].
  • patent's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Patents[6].
  • patent's facet of is recorded as patent law[7].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as Otto's encyclopedia[8].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as Dictionnaire des biens communs[9].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[10].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as The American Cyclopædia[11].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopædia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[12].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[13].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[14].
  • patent's described by source is recorded as Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary[15].
  • patent's main Wikidata property is recorded as P1246[16].
  • patent's different from is recorded as Q11571065[17].
  • patent's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10003466[18].
  • patent's studied by is recorded as economics[19].
  • patent's exact match is recorded as https://citationstyles.org/ontology/type/patent[20].
  • patent's exact match is recorded as http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_15cd[21].
  • patent's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[22].
  • patent's Wikimedia outline is recorded as outline of patents[23].
  • patent's model item is recorded as Traveling Matte[24].
  • patent's Stack Exchange site URL is recorded as https://patents.stackexchange.com[25].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include intellectual property[2] and scientific publication[3].

Use and Application

patent comprises patent application form[5].

Influence

Things named for patent include patent troll[26], a business model[27].

Why It Matters

patent ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,650 views/month).[1] patent has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[28] patent is known by 13 alternative names across languages and contexts.[29]

Entities named for patent include patent troll[26], a business model[27].

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . businesstoday.in. Retrieved . businesstoday.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [3] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . ipindia.nic.in. Retrieved . ipindia.nic.in. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . hirealawyer.findlaw.com. Retrieved . hirealawyer.findlaw.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . uspto.gov. Retrieved . uspto.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . ipexcel.com. Retrieved . ipexcel.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [26] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [27] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [28] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [29] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 23d ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Studied by economics
    Subclass of intellectual property, scientific publication
    Model item Traveling Matte
    Has part(s) patent application form
    + 12 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ [[Property:P9322]]: h0000081-patenty, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259494|batch #259494]]"
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