Twitter has a savvy new patent strategy

Jason Schultz and Jennifer Urban write for Daily Journal, May 2, 2012 (registration required)

Silicon Valley companies invest heavily in recruiting, and engineers who care about patent policy and open innovation are likely to see this as a signal that Twitter thinks differently about patents than other companies. If the IPA starts a trend, the technology labor market could become a testing ground for what policies truly “promote the progress of the useful arts” in America.