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by xyzzy_plugh
868 days ago
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I don't disagree but maintaining an arsenal of defensive parents is Enterprise IP legal 101. All the big companies do this. The goal is to avoid litigation by mutually assured destruction. At least that's what they tell you. Many projects
grant you patents as part of, for example, an OSS project's license. It's not unusual to include a clause that voids any such terms of you litigate over your own parents, for example -- hence the mutually assured destruction. Can you imagine what would happen if Google and Facebook tried to duke out some dumb software patent in court? A waste for all parties. Lastly Google has a wealth of resources here: https://google.github.io/opencasebook/patents/#patents-in-op... |
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