To avoid disputes, the two sides signed a patent cross-licensing agreement, under certain conditions to allow the transfer of certain patents to third parties.

为避免争端，双方签署协议达成专利交叉许可，允许在一定条件下把某些专利转让给第三方。

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Two duopoly firms with the perfect complementary patents may conduct three types of patent transaction, they are no patent licensing, cross licensing, patent pools licensing respectively.

拥有互补性专利的双寡头厂商可以进行三种方式的专利交易，分别是无专利授权、交叉许可授权和专利联盟授权。

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And there is another alternative: Apple could ultimately seek a patent cross-licensing deal with Google despite its late chief executive Steve Jobs' vow to "destroy Android".

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The deal also extends the existing patent cross-licensing deal between the two companies, and includes a NAND flash memory supply agreement for Samsung to provide chips to Seagate for solid-state drives and other products.

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Companies have also learned to work cooperatively to achieve their strategic IP goals by leveraging defensive patent pools, covenants not to sue, and creative cross-licensing models.

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