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Why don't people patent their Twitter apps then? It may take three years before you get it approved, but once it's in you can sue Twitter into oblivion for stea
by tansey 16y ago
Why don't people patent their Twitter apps then? It may take three years before you get it approved, but once it's in you can sue Twitter into oblivion for stealing your idea, right?
- nl 16y agoYou can't just "patent an app" If you have a patentable concept, perhaps - but even then, patents need to be surprisingly specific. For a platform vendor like Twitter that makes it pretty easy to work around their claims. For example, if you managed to patent the idea of broadcasting advertisements on twitter, the patent claim would probably have to say the method is something like "insert advertisement using Twitter API". Twitter can work around that by inserting the advertisement by other means. In other words - don't waste you time with this strategy.