Many companies participate in patent pools to share their intellectual property.

The patent pool allows companies to share their intellectual property and collaborate on innovation.

The critical path of the project is the sequence of tasks that must be completed on time in order to meet the project deadline.

Dealing with heartsink patients can be emotionally draining.

Patent trolls are a major problem in the tech industry.

A patent troll is a company or individual that enforces patent rights against accused infringers in an attempt to collect licensing fees, but does not manufacture products or supply services based upon the patents in question.

She really tore up the pea patch with her amazing singing.

I enjoy spending time in the pea patch, tending to the plants and harvesting fresh peas.

The directed path from node A to node B is the sequence of edges that connects A to B.

An undirected path is a sequence of vertices in a graph where each adjacent pair of vertices is connected by an edge.