What are sleeping patents?

Patents are typically characterized as very valuable assets for firms. Nevertheless, there are many patents in a firm's portfolio that are actually never commercially explioted. read more

Sleeping patents are the patents (or applications) that are consciously not being used by the patentholder, directly or through a third party, either to launch an application to market or for strategic reasons. read more

patents, i.e. to let other firms use these sleeping patents, to competitors. So, competitors can now use the innovations that Xerox registered, patented but never used. read more

Abstract: A sleeping bag having multiple sleeping compartments and including a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer. A first zipper is used to removably join the first layer to the second layer, defining a first sleeping compartment. read more