Patent

A patent is a right to refuse other companies from using some instructional capital limited by time (often 20 years) and jurisdiction of the patent granter. It is protected under different laws that have lately become very similar due to globalization.

Consumerium Governance Organization has to make some important decisions about how to deal with this type of monopoly and problems and opportunities that it creates for the Consumerium License.

See w:Patent for more comprehensive explanation of this instrument.

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See also:

• Open patent
• Patent pool
• Mandatory patent license