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Actually Twitter didn't just pay IBM, but bought the 900 patents from IBM outright, which hopefully Twitter will not then use offensively as IBM did, so this co
by snorkel 13y ago
Actually Twitter didn't just pay IBM, but bought the 900 patents from IBM outright, which hopefully Twitter will not then use offensively as IBM did, so this could be a good thing, and perhaps another way to deal with patent trolls: buy their arsenal leaving them with fewer extortion tools.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoTwitter have a public agreement to use patents only defensively, so hopefully these won't be used offensively now. https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement
- pyre 13y agoGood thing 'public agreements' aren't binding.
- mcintyre1994 13y agoI'm not a lawyer, but the documents look legally binding. They say to have a lawyer if you want to implement it. It forms part of their employee agreements and their patent filings.