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> You've come up with a brilliant idea, you spent time and money to implement it, and you want to make sure you receive the credit for it.

The problems is that 9 out of 10 times, that idea is derivative of some other idea(s). And you just have to hope that the original idea(s) either aren't patented or have since expired.



Or you can cross-license your improvement in exchange for the prior art.


Assuming the owner of the prior art is open to this, which may or may not be true.




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