Patent Licenses
There is an entire breed of specialized licenses that are used for patents. Patent owners license their patent rights to other companies, authorizing the licensees to make, use, sell or offer for sale, or import products embodying the claims of the patent. Rarely are such patent licenses unlimited. Instead, we typically see limitations for specific fields of use (e.g., a semiconductor patent licensed only for making disk drive heads), for specific products (e.g., a browser patent licensed only for a particular operating system), or for specific markets and geographic regions (e.g., a telephone system patent licensed only for products sold in the European Community).
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