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Untangling the Economics of Patent Thickets (view source)
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==Definitions==
===Core Terms===
A) '''Saturated Invention Spaces:''' The earliest definition of a patent thicket that we found is in Teece (1998), who points out a simple issue with patents. We refer to this as ‘saturated invention spaces’ and describe it as when a single firm, or a small number of firms, successfully patents an entire technological area. (p.15)
