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Patents Definitions

Patent: (n) the right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention or products made by an invented process that is granted to an inventor and his or her heirs or assigns for a term of years.

Cross License: (n) to license (a patent or invention) to another to use in return for a similar license.

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