ITPEC IP April 2021 Question 85
ITPEC IP April 2021 — Question 85 of 100
Cross-licensing is a mutual agreement between patent holders allowing each party to use the other's patents. It can remove blocking patent barriers, reduce infringement disputes, and let both companies develop products using complementary technologies under agreed conditions.
Answer (d)
Why not others:
- obtaining patents through a merger is acquisition of a company and its assets
- joint research is collaborative R&D
- granting a patent in exchange only for royalties is ordinary licensing, not reciprocal licensing
Key rule: Cross-licensing exchanges usage rights in patents between two or more holders.
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