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Re:Ask HN: A different approach to ending Patent Trolls by gregcohn on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:36PM (#7550672)
Twitter has made this announcement:https://blog.twitter.com/2012/introducing-innovators-patent-...

I haven't seen too many others following suit.

My guess is it's similar to putting land development rights into an environmental conservancy -- if binding on a company, it impacts its valuation.

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Re:Ask HN: A different approach to ending Patent Trolls by dylanbathurst on Monday April 07, 2014 @08:48PM (#7550719)
Ah, that's pretty cool. When I worked at Zappos/Amazon they had a similar approach to patents. They patented a lot of our code, but promised to only use it for defensive purposes. Which makes sense because we got sued a lot.
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