What is the definition of patent?

A patent is a form of intellectual property that gives it's owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, selling, and importing an invention for a limited period of years, in exchange for publishing an enabling public disclosure of the invention Hope this helps! Have a blessed day

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result of the incas claiming exclusive right over numerous traditional routes, some of which had been constructed centuries earlier mostly by the wari empire