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What is patent fencing? What are its advantages and disadvantages?
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IT law Wiki defines it as follows "A patent fence is a series of patents obtained by a patent owner on near substitutes for its patent , thereby blocking follow-on innovators from designing around the initial patent or from obtaining improvement patents that may block the original patent owner from improving on his original patented invention.
Answered on Mar 11th, 2011 at 2:13 PM