Assertion: patent | /r/HasProperty | open
Facets:
value: to the public
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Patent application publications and patents and related records, including records of any decisions, the records of assignments other than those relating to assignments of unpublished patent applications, patent applications that are relied upon for priority in a patent application publication or patent, books, and other records and papers in the Office are open to the public.
text: Patents are open to most areas of science and technology but some areas are excluded from patentability.
text: As adjectives the difference between patent and proprietary is that patent is (biology) open, unobstructed, expanded while proprietary is of or relating to property or ownership, as proprietary rights .