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Twitter has already been around and popular for too long for someone to try and sue now for the basic concept underlying their whole service. Twitter's defense
by nick007 17y ago
Twitter has already been around and popular for too long for someone to try and sue now for the basic concept underlying their whole service. Twitter's defense will be that this should have been brought up before -- before they've put in a few years of effort and millions of dollars.
- loup-vaillant 17y agoI'm afraid that's unaplicable. If it were, the whole concept of "submarine patent" would not exist —at least not for famous things, like theora.