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Intellectual Property

May 3, 2012

Twitter has a savvy new patent strategy

Twitter, in an unusual move, is giving its employees more control over their inventions. By Jennifer Urban and Jason Schultz of UC Berkeley School of Law


By Jennifer Urban and Jason Schultz


Welcome to the Software Patent Wars. In recent months, the dormant and somewhat decaying intellectual property arsenals built by technology companies in the 1990s and 2000s for supposedly "defensive" reasons have been deployed. Yahoo! sued Facebook; Oracle sued Google; and Samsung sued Apple. Microsoft and Nokia have also been drawn into the fray. The result is millions of dollars in legal fees and years in court, rai...

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