ITPEC FE Subject A October 2025 Question 40
ITPEC FE Subject A October 2025 — Question 40 of 60
Comprehensive Patent Cross-Licensing — mutual agreement to use each other's patents.
Cross-licensing means two or more companies agree to let each other use their patents in specified technology or product fields — avoiding infringement disputes.
Why not others:
- (a) Sharing registration costs — cost-sharing for filing is not cross-licensing
- (b) Publishing source code freely — describes open source software, unrelated to patents
- (d) Stopping counterpart's manufacturing — describes patent enforcement (blocking), the opposite of cross-licensing (mutual permission)
Key rule: Cross-licensing = mutual permission to use patents; enforcement = blocking others from using patents.
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