Remember the demand for Yahoo! to Facebook? This demand was made ​​possible by patents held by Yahoo!, many of them obtained a promise that they would not be used offensively.

Twitter has taken the lead to limit the abuse of patent trolls presenting their Patent Agreement with Innovative with which explicit commitment not to use its patents offensively and defensively only in case of litigation.



A big step that brings some sanity to the turbulent environment in which intellectual property is in the world, and specifically within the field of software patents which is infested with trolls and patent litigation in bad faith use extortion as a business model or limit their competition.

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