patent license
Definitions from Case Law · United States Supreme Court
Definitions from Case Law
From 272 U.S. 476 - United States v. General Electric Co. · 1926Most cited · 778 citing opinions
The owner of a patent may assign it to another and convey (1) the exclusive right to make, use, and vend the invention throughout the United States; or (2) an undivided part or share of that exclusive right; or (3) the exclusive right under the patent within and through a specific part of the United States. But any assignment or transfer short of one of these is a license giving the licensee no title in the patent and no right to sue at law in his own name for an infringement.
How often courts cite the case defining “patent license”
Court decisions citing the opinion that defined “patent license” — 775 in all, by decade. Counts are citations to the defining case as a whole, not verified uses of the term. The dip in the most recent years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the latest years.