pooling
B1CEFR level
28/100Rarity: fairly common
TechnicalRegister
The combining of patents from multiple holders into one portfolio licensed collectively.
Standard-setting often relies on patent pooling so that manufacturers can clear all essential rights in a single deal.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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