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grant-forward

grant-forward noun: in U.S. patent law, a provision accompanying the license of a patent under which a party agrees not only to grant a licensee the right to use a patent, but also to grant the licensee a license to any improvements made on the existing patent.

Noun

grant-forward (plural grant-forwards)

  1. In U.S. patent law, a provision accompanying the license of a patent under which a party agrees not only to grant a licensee the right to use a patent, but also to grant the licensee a license to any improvements made on the existing patent.

Forms of grant-forward

pluralgrant-forwards

Questions about grant-forward

What does grant-forward mean?
Grant-forward means in U.S. patent law, a provision accompanying the license of a patent under which a party agrees not only to grant a licensee the right to use a patent, but also to grant the licensee a license to any improvements made on the existing patent.
What part of speech is grant-forward?
Grant-forward is a noun.
What is the plural of grant-forward?
The plural of grant-forward is grant-forwards.

Words near grant-forward in the dictionary

  1. Grant's gazelles
  2. Grant's zebra
  3. Grant's zebras
  4. grant-back
  5. grant-backs
  6. grant-forward
  7. grant-forwards
  8. grant-in-aid
  9. grant-in-kind
  10. Granta
  11. grantability

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