Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

Preferred term

cross-licensing  

Definition

  • A cross-licensing agreement is a contractual arrangement that allows a group of companies to make use of one another's patents. All firms involved agree to refrain from suing one another for patent infringement, usually for both currently held and future patents. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Cross-Licensing]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/cross-licensing

Download this concept: