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| Page 1 of 1 | Previous | Next | A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY APRIL 18, 2012 The Twitter "Patent Hack" So IP that was partially funded by our firm was used to sue other portfolio companies. Yesterday Twitter announced that they plan to amend the assignments agreements that they sign with their employees. They call this proposed amendment the Innovator's Patent Agreement. You can read the entire set of provisions on GitHub. | | | | | | |
| | | A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY DECEMBER 29, 2011 2012: The Year That Movements Go Mainstream? 4) Wired says that 2011 was the year that IP trumped Civil Liberties. I returned from ten days of skiing with my family last night. I'm on mountain time and plan to stay there until the new year. Staying up late and sleeping late seems to be a good way to bring in the New Year. That leaves a fair bit of time to read and think. | A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY FEBRUARY 7, 2010 Flash, HTML5, and Mobile Apps It is a standard provided by the MPEG-LA consortsia, and is governed by commercial and IP restrictions, which will in 2014 impose a royalty and license requirement on all users of the technology. About a year ago, I wrote a post about Apple's "blind spot" for Flash. The third rail, as it were. It can’t. It's very good. | A VC : VENTURE CAPITAL AND TECHNOLOGY JANUARY 12, 2010 Would AT&T or Comcast Have Created Google? But they did not create Google, Skype, Facebook, or even TCP/IP. The answer to that question is no. They had their chances. In the early days of the Internet, when dial-up was king, the telco companies were in the driver's seat. They had the customer relationships. They had the on-ramp to the Internet. Why am I talking about this? | | | | | | | |
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John Morris