Mozilla and Patents
Daniel Cater <[email protected]> Mon, 9 Apr 2012 13:29:58 -0700 (PDT)
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"AOL and Microsoft Announce $1.056 Billion Patent Deal" http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120409005434/en/AOL-Microsoft-Announce-1.056-Billion-Patent-Deal Some sources are reporting that these are Netscape patents: http://allthingsd.com/20120409/attention-marc-andreessen-microsoft-just-bought-part-of-netscape/ This made me think about the relation between Netscape patents and Mozilla, and Mozilla and patents in general. So I have some questions (these may be answered somewhere but I couldn't find them after a brief look). What follows is mainly just a quick braindump of my thought process so some questions might not make sense. 1. Does Mozilla hold any patents that it inherited / acquired from Netscape / AOL? 2. Does Mozilla hold any patents that it inherited / acquired from elsewhere? 3. Does Mozilla hold any patents that it filed for itself? 4. Does Mozilla have a licence for any Netscape / AOL patents? 5. Does Mozilla have a licence for any other patents? 6. Does Mozilla have a patent policy? 7. Does Mozilla have a section on patents in employees' contracts? 8. Does this sale and licence of AOL patents to Microsoft have any meaningful impact on Mozilla? Thanks.