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A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents. This concept is associated with negative connotations and has been described as "a dense web of overlapping intellectual property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology".

Patent thicket - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Overlapping set of patent rights A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents. [ 1 ] This concept has negative connotations and has been described as "a dense web of overlapping intellectual property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology ". [ 2 ] Etymology [ edit ] The expression may come from SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp., 645 F.2d 1195 (2d Cir. 1981), a patent litigation cas

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