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patent pools

patent pools is the plural of patent pool.

Meaning of patent pool

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

Questions about patent pools

What is patent pools the plural of?
Patent pools is the plural of patent pool.

Words near patent pools in the dictionary

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

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