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(the note here has nothing to do with what a mandatory patent license actually IS, so this is now explained independently of the Consortium licenses you find it in - see talk for response tho)
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A '''mandatory patent license''' is part of most [[Consortium license]]s.  It requires all [[patent]]ed (or even sometimes just "patentable" [[improvement]]) to be re-licensed to all [[consortium]] members on the same identical terms.
A '''mandatory patent license''' is part of most [[Consortium license]]s.  It requires all [[patent]]ed (or even sometimes just "patentable" [[improvement]]) to be licensed to all [[consortium]] members on the same identical terms.  It does not necessarily include [[required reintegration]] of new inventions based on the old ones, but it might (that is a separate concern in its own page here).


Government agencies often are required to offer licenses on patents they file.
Government agencies often are required to offer licenses on patents they file.


[[Consumerium License]] will probably require giving up patent rights to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] if only so it can release these to the [[public domain]] without violating anyone's rights.  It might also choose to work within a [[Green Patent License]] or [[open patent]] regime eventually - retaining the rights until they can be protected and used for [[self-funding]].
[[Consumerium License]] might choose to work within a [[Green Patent License]] or [[open patent]] regime eventually - retaining the rights until they can be protected and used for [[self-funding]] if it can be reasonably argued that these might be workable in practice.  This is up to the [[Consumerium Governance Organization]] which might use different approaches for different parts of the system.


See [[healthy signal infrastructure]] for a more general framework of something that the [[healthy buying infrastructure]] of [[Consumerium Services]] might be part of, and which would probably have one or more elements under some such a mandatory license.
See [[healthy signal infrastructure]] for a more general framework of something that the [[healthy buying infrastructure]] of [[Consumerium Services]] might be part of, and which would probably have one or more elements under some such a mandatory license.
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