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This reminds me of the "pull to refresh" patent that Twitter owns, but has promised to only use defensively. Optimistically, Google wants a similar thing so th
by kyle-rb 8y ago
This reminds me of the "pull to refresh" patent that Twitter owns, but has promised to only use defensively.
Optimistically, Google wants a similar thing so they can defend the use of this technique if someone tries to seek royalties for use of this video encoding technique.
A little less optimistically, Google wants it so they can pull the license from a specific party if that party tries to sue them for an unrelated patent.
- ndr 8y agoWhat do you mean by defensively then Isn't patent war a bit like Risk in that whoever has more patents (no matter how related) used by the other party wins?
- jaredklewis 8y agoMore like MUD. The cost of litigating a patent war between companies at the scale of Google is so high, that it’s generally not in anyone’s interest.
- QuercusMax 8y agoI think you mean MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction. Although a patent-war MUD (multi-user dungeon/domain) might be an interesting premise.
- jaredklewis 8y agoOh, yes, definitely meant that, thanks!
- xamarinthrw 8y agoPull to refresh is a cancer which has wasted hours in my life online because of over eager scrolling. I hope twitter starts aggressively suing and charging people who use it and they all go bankrupt and come to rue their life choices. EDIT: somebody flagged me, sorry I didn't frame it correctly. I forgot to mention jobless so lots of time to ponder over the mistake.
- brbrodude 8y agoFaulty society constructs break down one way or another. This is very clear sign of rotten stuff underneath. I.e.: The system sucks, man.
- brandmeyer 8y agoThe fundamental problem with defensive patents is that you have to do more than merely trust the patent holder's current management. You have to trust the next 20 years of the patent holder's management.