Twitter paid $36 million over IBM patent threat

Posted by BernardSwiss on Mar 10, 2014 11:58 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Joe Mullin 		Mail this story
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The patent exchange was spun in positive terms, as something that would boost Twitter's intellectual property portfolio to help it defend itself from other threats against competitors. The exchange does do that, but this "deal" wouldn't have happened but at the end of IBM's massive patent gun, which was pointed at Twitter right before its IPO.

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