Adoption by ventures is interesting, but I think the real power here falls in the ability of inventors themselves to 'unionize' in a sense. Say a movement began where a significant portion of the top patent producers took a pledge to one another to only work for companies under the Twitter Patent agreement.
Sometime, in less than 17 yrs from today, the balance of 'defense only' patents to normal patents would make offensive patent litigation prohibitively expensive.
Suddenly, there is a group of people on this planet - not lobbyists, not politicians, not investors - actual IP producers who can change a broken system for the better. To me, this is the most exciting potential of the Twitter Patent Hack.
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Adoption by ventures is interesting, but I think the real power here falls in the ability of inventors themselves to 'unionize' in a sense. Say a movement began where a significant portion of the top patent producers took a pledge to one another to only work for companies under the Twitter Patent agreement.
Sometime, in less than 17 yrs from today, the balance of 'defense only' patents to normal patents would make offensive patent litigation prohibitively expensive.
Suddenly, there is a group of people on this planet - not lobbyists, not politicians, not investors - actual IP producers who can change a broken system for the better. To me, this is the most exciting potential of the Twitter Patent Hack.