"patent pool" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "2001, Rudi Bekkers, Mobile Telecommunications Standards: GSM, UMTS, TETRA, and ERMES, Artech House, page 250",
          "text": "A patent pool is an arrangement in which patents of different firms that are relevant to a certain standard or technology are licensed as a package, and the resulting royalties are distributed among those firms (called the licensors).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2002, Mark A. Glick, Lara A. Reymann, Richard Hoffman, Intellectual Property Damages, John Wiley & Sons, page 213",
          "text": "A patent pool can be an effective way of resolving conflicting rights.",
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        "A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents."
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          "consortium",
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          "crosslicense",
          "crosslicense"
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          "blocking patent",
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        "(law) A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "law"
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  "word": "patent pool"
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          "text": "A patent pool is an arrangement in which patents of different firms that are relevant to a certain standard or technology are licensed as a package, and the resulting royalties are distributed among those firms (called the licensors).",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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        "A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents."
      ],
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        "(law) A consortium of companies which agree to crosslicense patents relating to a particular technology, often to avoid the problem of blocking patents."
      ],
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