The patent law injunction claim grants the holder a far-reaching exclusive right, the exercise of which is fundamentally unrestricted. This poses challenges when the enforcement of rights in individual cases conflicts with the protective purposes of granting patent rights. For instance, the assertion of the injunction claim by rights holders who do not use their patent rights for the development, production, labeling, or promotion of products can be problematic. This is particularly true when the injunction claim is used solely as a threat to achieve maximum profits. This stands in contrast to the nature of patents, which are also intended to function as tradable economic goods. In this context, patent holders, particularly in the form of licensing companies, play a very important economic role.