Twitter today unveiled a bold new commitment that will be made in writing to its employees—the company will not use any patents derived from employee inventions in offensive lawsuits without the inventor’s permission.
The move is highly unusual in the technology industry, which is awash in patent lawsuits filed by and against seemingly all of the biggest companies. Twitter has written up a draft of what it calls the “Innovator’s Patent Agreement,” or IPA, which encourages its developers to invent without the fear that their inventions will be used for nefarious purposes.
from Ars Technica