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📄 To give permission 📄 A legal permission
to sublicense

to sublicense

1 7.4
To give someone permission to use rights you hold under an existing agreement
  • verb
  • /ˈsʌb.laɪ.sɛns/
  • Specialized
: sublicenciar
  • They can sublicense the rights to distribute the product in international markets.

Examples

  • You may sublicense the software to other developers under your license agreement.

  • They can even sublicense it if they want.

    Blog text (31)

  • The company plans to incorporate the system into a demonstration facility for recycling vehicles and will sublicense the Argonne technology to automobile shredders worldwide.

    Academic text (2000)

  • "You will not attempt or encourage others to: sell, rent, lease, sublicense, redistribute, or syndicate access to the Twitter API or Twitter Content to any third party without prior written approval from Twitter."

    Blog text (4)

  • However, Alnylam retains the full rights to use the IP to bring drugs to market, including ALN-TTR02, its phase I liver cancer drug ALN-VSP, and its cholesterol drug ALN-PCS, as well as to sublicense the IP on a product-by-product basis.

    Blog text (23)

  • The team decided to sublicense their patented technology to various manufacturers.

Antonyms

to revoke
  • Formal
98 6.2

Officially stop something from being valid, for example a license

Surface Forms

sublicense infinitive
sublicensed past
sublicensed past participle
sublicensing present participle
sublicenses third person singular

Morphology

sublicense = license (transparent) = sub + license

Verb formed by adding productive prefix 'sub-' to the verb 'license', giving the sense 'to license under an existing license', which is directly inferable.

Etymology

Sublicense as a verb comes from sub- meaning 'under', like in subway, and license meaning 'permission'. So to sublicense is to give someone permission 'under' the permission you already hold.