Cross-licensing

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Cross-licensing is the mutual sharing of patents between companies without an exchange of a license fee. Software corporations like Microsoft use this method to pile up more licenses. They have many licenses that can be used for such cross-licensing. it is known that big software corporations can force small companies to share their licenses with them in an cross-licensing agreement or face legal problems from the corporations who say, that they have licenses that are broken by the small company.