Twitter Blog: Introducing the Innovator's Patent Agreement

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http://blog.twitter.com/2012/04/introducing-innovators-patent-agreement.html

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This is quite a good idea, although one might quibble over what "only used defensively" means - it's possible that I'm misunderstanding the legalese, but it looks to me that any company who has filed a patent infringement suit for any reason in the last ten years (and who might be infringing, obviously) would be fair game. Which in turn means that this is meaningless, and will be just as innovation-stifling in practice as any current agreement. But I await being told that I've misunderstood.

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