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The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to ...
posted on 17/04/2012 17:39 #patents #twitter #ipa
> The IPA is a new way to do patent assignment that keeps control in the hands of engineers and designers. It is a commitment from Twitter to our employees that patents can only be used for defensive purposes. We will not use the patents from employees’ inventions in offensive litigation without their permission. What’s more, this control flows with the patents, so if we sold them to others, they could only use them as the inventor intended. --Twitter Blog: Introducing the Innovator’s Patent Agreementpowered by 