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Patent Defense: Address workers and companies (close #3) #41

Closed kemitchell closed 5 years ago

kemitchell commented 5 years ago

This PR splits Patent Defense in two. The first sentence terminates the patent license completely when the licensee themself makes a patent claim. The second sentence terminates the patent license only for work for a company when that company makes a patent claim.

If LicensorCo releases software under Polyform, Bob uses that software at work for LicenseeCo, and LicenseeCo makes a patent claim against LicensorCo, Bob's patent license for the software now ends for work for LicenseeCo, but Bob remains licensed for other uses of the software, like personal uses or work for other companies.