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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.
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