ITPEC FE Morning April 2021 Question 50
ITPEC FE Morning April 2021 — Question 50 of 80
Comprehensive Patent Cross-License — mutual agreement to use each other's patents.
A comprehensive patent cross-license is an agreement where companies mutually grant each other the right to use their patents in specified fields of technologies or products.
Why not others:
- (a) Sharing patent registration costs — this is co-funding, not licensing
- (b) Publishing source code for free — this describes open source software, not patent licensing
- (d) Exercising the right to stop manufacturing — this is patent enforcement (blocking use), the opposite of cross-licensing
Key rule: "Cross" = mutual, "License" = permission to use. Cross-license = two-way permission to use each other's patents without infringement claims.
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