It's an interesting point — to know how Mozilla prevents itself from stumbling into patents and.or how Mozilla maintains innovation with patent safe cycles. I have enjoyed how Reza brought this up – with an specific point — and I think it is really important for Mozilla to keep a channel of communication related to this which also may include contributor behaviour against recommendations. To name a few:
* The behaviour of learning or digging into existing patents — is healthy or may put Mozilla in risk * The behaviour of creating fresh new ideas in the open as well to make all ideas public — is healthy or may put Mozilla in risk. I used to love Mozilla Labs Challenges efforts due to the possibility of protection against patent. But I do not think it was a strategic from Mozilla to think as Labs as a protection against other's protection. Nevertheless a number of things came out from Labs and it serves well as a fight against patents. M On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Peter Dolanjski <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Reza, > > We take our legal team through our feature implementations and they are > responsible for doing necessary due diligence. It's likely impossible to > per-emptively list out these sorts of things, so do we reviews before > shipment. > The developer wouldn't know what to avoid, but our UX team knows to engage > legal for specific feedback on visual implementations like this early on. > > Peter > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Reza Akhavan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> This morning during FxOS triage the "stretching effect" of over scrolling >> was brought up. If I remember correctly, Apple may have patented the "bounce >> behavior" so many of us are familiar with. >> >> I'm curious, do we have a list of common behaviors that are patented? How >> would a developer know not to implement a feature that conflicted with a >> patent? >> >> Obviously there are too many patents related to mobile/tablet/etc and we >> couldn't list them all. But things like this scrolling behavior seem like >> prime candidates to be on a list somewhere. >> >> Thanks, >> Reza >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g >> > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > -- www.telasocial.com _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
