#patents
Live, measured metrics for the hashtag #patents from the open social web. Every number carries a named source and the time it was fetched. Nothing is estimated.
Own #patents
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Day-by-day usage
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public tags API) · fetched 2026-09-26 11:57 UTCNo measured public usage for #patents in the last 7 days. That is a real result, and a good one to know: this hashtag is wide open right now. We show a dash before we ever show a made-up number. Browse the trending index for tags with live measurements.
Related hashtags
measured · mastodon.social (Mastodon public search API) · fetched 2026-09-26 11:57 UTCNo related tags with measured usage found for #patents.
Live pulse
measured · Mastodon tag timeline · fetched 2026-09-26 11:57 UTCNo recent public posts found for #patents on Mastodon. Nothing measured, so nothing shown.
What “patents” means
Wiktionary · Wikipediapatents
- nounA declaration issued by a government agency declaring someone the inventor of a new invention and having the privilege of stopping others from making, using or selling the claimed invention; a letter patent.
- verbTo successfully register an invention with a government agency; to secure a letter patent.
A patent is a type of intellectual property that gives its owner the legal right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention for a limited period of time, in exchange for publishing an enabling disclosure of the invention. It offers a bargain between society and inventor: for a limited period of exclusivity, the inventor agrees to make the invention public rather than to keep it secret. In most countries, patent rights fall under private law and the patent holder must sue someo
“Patent” on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) →#patents across platforms
every network with a public tag surfaceFollow #patents straight to each platform’s own tag page. Where a platform publishes open data we measure it above; the rest lock their numbers behind paid APIs, so we link rather than guess.
Every number above is measured from a named public API at the shown fetch time. Nothing is estimated or extrapolated. Platforms that lock their data behind paid APIs are not shown. Agents: the same numbers, as JSON, at /api/hashtags/patents