http://yehudakatz.com/2017/09/16/facebook-patent-clause-protects-facebook-not-you/ … The Facbook patent clause punishes you for suing Facebook, but lets them sue you. Apache is better.
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Google uses React in web app. Google acquires company involved in a medical device patent lawsuit with FB. FB sues Google over React patents
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Thanks! Great examples.
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The point in my article, though was: Google contributes patches to React. Facebook sues Google for patent infringement. Facebook is fine.
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Google sues Facebook for unrelated patent infringement (hardware, say). Now Google can be sued simply for using react.
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So the clause blocks Google from suing Facebook for any patent reason but not vice versa. This is bad.
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Thing is, if React was Berkeley licensed, no one would be complaining, and FB could use relevant patents to sue anyone at any time at all.
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Google uses Ember in web app. Google sues Facebook for patent infringement in Oculus hardware. FB sues Google over React patents in Ember.
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