As a resolution to this conflict, in March 2000, Raph made a patent grant of his patent portfolio to the GPL community.

The patent grant became a controversy soon.

In the United States, the patent grant is presumptive, e.g. a patent shall issue unless the patent statutes preclude the grant.

And since the CDDL has an explicit patent grant, they should be in the clear to continue using and improving things.

Without an appropriate patent grant, browser vendors-whether open source or proprietary-cannot implement the specification without opening themselves up to a lawsuit.

It also contains a patent grant, giving anyone an irrevocable grant to use any patents that Google may hold that cover the codec.

An amendment to it the following year required submission of two copies of drawings-one for safekeeping in the patent office; the other attached to the patent grant transmitted to the applicant.

Recently the patent grant of a pharma drug has attracted attention.

And you have that right whether or not you manufacture your widget; that right is part of the patent grant.

After a patent grant to Wesson in 1850, awarded posthumously, the first Wesson & Leavitt revolvers rolled off the line at Chicopee Falls.