“Defensive Patent License” created to protect innovators from trolls

Jason Schultz and Jennifer Urban quoted in Ars Technica, June 12, 2012

“The idea is this:  If you want to be part of this network of defensive patent people, you are committing that all of your patents, every single thing you’ve done, will be available royalty-free to anyone who wants to take a license, if they commit to only practice defensive patent licensing,” Schultz said today in Boston at the Usenix conference on cyberlaw issues.

Urban notes in her blog post that both Twitter’s pledge and the DPL are “a private response to a broken patent system,” but “unless and until Congress or the courts can improve things, such private solutions may be our best options to stem the rising tide of patent attacks.”
This story appeared in a number of sources including The Verge, BGR, Techdirt, Intellectual Asset Management magazine, and InfoWorld.