Hacker News: ggl_thorwawayhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=ggl_thorwawayHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:49:39 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by ggl_thorwaway in "Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products"]]>When I was at Google, we were encouraged by our lawyers not to worry about patents or unique parts of any product. If there ever will be a claim, they will drown the company in legal fees, so nobody is going to dare to sue us.

Patents were used, in many cases, as a form of research into a new area.

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