{"id":4609,"date":"2012-06-13T22:57:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T03:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4609"},"modified":"2012-06-13T22:57:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T03:57:21","slug":"defensive-patent-license-created-to-protect-innovators-from-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4609","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDefensive Patent License\u201d created to protect innovators from trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The pledge might help Twitter attract ethical engineers, but ultimately it\u2019s just one company taking a stand among a sea of litigators that are happy to prevent the sale of competitors\u2019 products or extract licensing fees. A potentially more ambitious project called the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/defensivepatentlicense.com\/\">Defensive Patent License<\/a>\u201d aims to take the same basic idea practiced by Twitter and spread it across a big part of the technology industry.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2012\/06\/defensive-patent-license-created-to-protect-innovators-from-trolls\/\">\u201cDefensive Patent License\u201d created to protect innovators from trolls | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The commitment is both daunting in that it requires submitting <em>all<\/em> of a member company\u2019s patents to the pool, and forgiving in that members can still sue the pants off non-members. Schultz said his team thought long and hard about the exact implementation of the Defensive Patent License.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The pledge might help Twitter attract ethical engineers, but ultimately it\u2019s just one company taking a stand among a sea of litigators that are happy to prevent the sale of competitors\u2019 products or extract licensing fees. A potentially more ambitious &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4609\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[301,34],"class_list":["post-4609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-patent-trolls","tag-patents"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4609\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}