Navigating the Patent Thicket: Cross Licenses, Patent Pools, and Standard-Setting
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- 1 January 2001
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
In several key industries, including semiconductors, biotechnology, computer software, and the Internet, our patent system is creating a patent thicket: an overKeywords
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