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Make 2(b) use the definition of Defensive Purpose rather than providing a different definition of "defensively" #14

Open joshtriplett opened 12 years ago

joshtriplett commented 12 years ago

This ensures that a company filing a patent suit for a Defensive Purpose does not open themselves to lawsuits by other companies who follow this agreement.

jrconlin commented 12 years ago

In addition, can we have some clarification of what "Defensive" means or in what context it applies?

For instance, say I create a library that uses GPL. I discover that Twitter uses it, but fails to publish the code/include copyright statement/etc. If I sought correction, would that trigger a "Defensive" action of being sued for any patent related content my library (or other libraries I may have authored) may contain?

The above is just one potential non-patent related scenario that could trigger the defense mechanism. I can easily imagine others.

joshtriplett commented 12 years ago

@jrconlin That seems like a separate issue. This pull request will make sure the whole agreement uses the same definition of "Defensive Purpose"; if you want to clarify that definition, I'd suggest filing a separate issue about that.

I do agree that the issue you raised seems significant.

jrconlin commented 12 years ago

Thanks, will do. Also took the opportunity to generalize it a bit: https://github.com/twitter/innovators-patent-agreement/issues/15

joshtriplett commented 12 years ago

I like this pull request (even though recursion sometimes makes my head hurt). Unless I can think of some reason over the weekend for not doing this, I think I will merge it...

Any status on this? Any reasons not to merge? (Happy to update if doesn't apply.)

joshtriplett commented 10 years ago

Any plans to incorporate this change?

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