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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by ehsankia on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:56PM (#19175931)
Those are examples of using it defensively. They use patents to defend themselves against lawsuit.

In this case, anyone is free to use the algorithm, and Google won't go after them with the patent.

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Re:Winning the Blackbird Battle by Buge on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:50PM (#19176712)
The Waymo vs Uber one wasn't a defense against a lawsuit.
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