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patent pool

patent pool noun: a consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents.

Noun

patent pool (plural patent pools)

  1. A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents.
    • A patent pool is an arrangement in which patents of different firms that are relevant to a certain standard or technology are licensed as a package, and the resulting royalties are distributed among those firms (called the licensors).2001, Rudi Bekkers, Mobile Telecommunications Standards: GSM, UMTS, TETRA, and ERMES, Artech House, →ISBN, page 250
    • A patent pool can be an effective way of resolving conflicting rights.2002, Mark A. Glick, Lara A. Reymann, Richard Hoffman, Intellectual Property Damages, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 213

Forms of patent pool

pluralpatent pools

Questions about patent pool

What does patent pool mean?
Patent pool means a consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents.
What part of speech is patent pool?
Patent pool is a noun.
What is the plural of patent pool?
The plural of patent pool is patent pools.

Words near patent pool in the dictionary

  1. patent of precedence
  2. patent office
  3. patent offices
  4. patent outside
  5. patent outsides
  6. patent pool
  7. patent pools
  8. patent thicket
  9. patent thickets
  10. patent troll
  11. patent trolling

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