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"By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio to all of the open-source patent consortium's members." https://www.z
by DennisP 6y ago
"By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio to all of the open-source patent consortium's members."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-entire-patent-portfolio/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-ent...
Apple had "1,996 total patents granted between July 1, 2019 and June 1, 2020, more than any other company in Silicon Valley."
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/07/27/top-of-the-list-patent-recipients.html https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2020/07/27/top-of-t...
- entropy1111 6y agoMy recollection from previous OIN threads was that it came with a lot of caveats. I can't comment any further from lack of knowledge about patents and its subtleties. Would love to see an analysis of what really happened in practice since they did that.