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“ The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What’s more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others, they could only use them as the inventor intended.”
Twitter introduces the Innovator’s Patent Agreement, sets an amazing example.
“ What a day for Android. It was just pushed behind the scenes as the thing that powers that awesome, cheap Amazon Kindle tablet. And made into that thing you pay Microsoft to use.”
Couple this with the earlier news that 2/3rd’s of Google’s mobile search is from iOS devices and we have quite a tangled web.
Defeating Patent Trolls with Crowdsourcing
Paid Content reports on an absolutely killer idea:
Article One Partners, based in New York, uses crowdsourcing techniques and pays rewards of thousands of dollars to people who can uncover “prior art” – demonstrating that the methods claimed in a patent have actually been used before.
And now, Article One has launched what could be the best PR effort in recent memory: they’re sponsoring projects within their network to debunk the patents Lodsys and MacroSolve have been using to squeeze independent developers.
