Definitions for patent thicket
patent thick·et

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1. patent thicketnoun

   A group of patents in a field of technology which collectively impede a party from commercializing its own patents or products in that field.

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1. Patent thicket

   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".

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1. Patent thicket

   A patent thicket is "a dense web of overlapping intellectual property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology," or, in other words, "an overlapping set of patent rights” which require innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents from multiple sources." The expression may come from SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp. patent litigation case in the 1970s, wherein SCM's central charge had been that Xerox constructed a "patent thicket" to prevent competition. Patent thickets are used to defend against competitors designing around a single patent. It has been suggested by some that this is particularly true in fields such as software or pharmaceuticals, but Sir Robin Jacob has pointed out that "every patentee of a major invention is likely to come up with improvements and alleged improvements to his invention" and that "it is in the nature of the patent system itself that [patent thickets] should happen and it has always happened". Patent thickets are also sometimes called "patent floods", or "patent clusters". According to a report by Professor Ian Hargreaves, published in May 2011, patent thickets "obstruct entry to some markets and so impede innovation." Patent thickets are said to become increasingly common in fields like nanotechnology as more fundamental science is patented and some authors have expressed concern that this could reduce technological development and innovation.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of patent thicket in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of patent thicket in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
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   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_Thicket
3. ^ Wikidata
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