Cross Licensing
Summary of Cross Licensing
An arrangement in which one firm grants to another licenses to exploit proprietary rights in its patents or trademarks, secret processes, et cetera, in return for similar licensure to use the rights or processes of the recipient firm.
(Main Author: William J. Miller)
Cross-licensing and International Trade Economy
In relation to international trade economy, Christopher Mark (1993) provided the following definition of Cross-licensing: An arrangement in which a firm grants a license to another firm to exploit proprietary rights in its patents, trademarks, or trade secrets, in exchange for similar licensure to use intellectual property rights of the recipient firm.
In the United States
For information about Cross-licensing in the context of international trade, click here
Pooling/cross-licensing
Resources
See Also
Further Reading
- Information about Cross-licensing in the Encyclopedia of World Trade: from Ancient Times to the Present (Cynthia Clark Northrup)
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