Grazer: Companies like Twitter and Tesla pledged purely defensive patent enforcement
Dr. Devorah Grazer · The Patent Pending Secret That Adds $1M to Your Startup Valuation · Jan 28, 2021 · at 31:52
Dr. Devorah Grazer discusses defensive patent pledges and open-source models with host Sean Weisbrot on We Live to Build.
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“Some companies have decided on their own that they will only enforce their patents if someone attacks them first. So Twitter has pledged this Elon Musk in a famous blog post with the title, all our patents are belong to you playing off of the famous meme, all your base are belong to us.”
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