patent holding company

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• Patent holding company — Patent holding companies are companies set up to administer, consolidate and license patents or otherwise enforce patent rights, such as through litigation. Many patent holding companies have been characterized pejoratively as patent trolls due… …   Wikipedia

• Holding company — A holding company is a company that owns part, all, or a majority of other companies outstanding stock. It usually refers to a company which does not produce goods or services itself, rather its only purpose is owning shares of other companies.… …   Wikipedia

• Patent troll — is a pejorative but questioned term used for a person or company who is a non practicing inventor, and buys and enforces patents against one or more alleged infringers in a manner considered by the target or observers as unduly aggressive or… …   Wikipedia

• Patent portfolio — A patent portfolio is a collection of patents owned by a single entity, such as an individual or corporation. The patents may be related or unrelated. Patent applications may also be regarded as included in a patent portfolio. The monetary… …   Wikipedia

• Patent pool — In patent law, a patent pool is a consortium of at least two companies agreeing to cross license patents relating to a particular technology. The creation of a patent pool can save patentees and licensees time and money, and, in case of blocking… …   Wikipedia

• 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. [ Carl Shapiro, [http://faculty.haas.berkeley.edu/shapiro/thicket.pdf… …   Wikipedia

• Patent — A patent is a set of exclusive rights granted by a state to an inventor or his assignee for a fixed period of time in exchange for a disclosure of an invention.The procedure for granting patents, the requirements placed on the patentee and the… …   Wikipedia

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• Catch and release (patent) — Catch and release in patent law refers to the practice of a patent holding company buying a patent, offering a license to its members and then selling or donating the patent after a certain period of time.… …   Wikipedia

• Chicago Tunnel Company — Under the streets of Chicago, pre 1906. Locale Illinois Dates of operation 1906–1959 T …   Wikipedia