Patent thicket
Overlapping set of patent rights / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A patent thicket is "an overlapping set of patent rights" which requires innovators to reach licensing deals for multiple patents.[1] This concept has negative connotations and has been described as "a dense web of overlapping intellectual property rights that a company must hack its way through in order to actually commercialize new technology".[2]