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Re:A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the... by monocasa on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:22AM (#15219160)
That's never been tested in court, and requires some rather large leaps of thought.
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Re:A startup founder and ex-Facebook engineer’s story of the... by solomatov on Monday September 11, 2017 @11:47AM (#15219375)
IANAL. There's case law in copyright law concerning implicit grants. We can assume that it's at least partially applicable to patents (See here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implied_license).
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