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patent ambushes

patent ambushes is the plural of patent ambush.

Meaning of patent ambush

Noun

patent ambush (plural patent ambushes)

  1. The situation in which a member of a standard-setting organization, while participating in the development of a standard, withholds information about their current or intended patent, and subsequently asserts that it is infringed by use of the new standard.

Questions about patent ambushes

What is patent ambushes the plural of?
Patent ambushes is the plural of patent ambush.

Words near patent ambushes in the dictionary

  1. patencies
  2. patency
  3. patens
  4. patent
  5. patent ambush
  6. patent ambushes
  7. patent fuel
  8. patent fuels
  9. patent hammer
  10. patent hammers
  11. patent inside

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