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patent ambush

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.46 in modern English

Syllables
paten-t am-bush
IPA
21
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The situation in which a member of a standard-setting organization, while participating in the development of a standard, withholds information about their current or intended patent, and subsequently asserts that it is infringed by use of the new standard.

Inflected Forms

patent ambushes (plural)

Questions

What does patent ambush mean?
The situation in which a member of a standard-setting organization, while participating in the development of a standard, withholds information about their current or intended patent, and subsequently asserts that it is infringed by use of the new standard.

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