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		rasz on Jan 22, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Loon’s final flight >If, however, this news came with a grant of all the patents into the public domain They dont own any patents, they stole the tech from a startup, got sued, lost (patents) and finally had to settle. https://www.wired.com/story/the-lawsuit-that-could-pop-alpha... https://www.law.com/therecorder/2019/07/29/google-settles-ip...

supermatt on Jan 22, 2021 [–]

They have about 100 listed here: https://loon.com/legal/patents/

rasz on Jan 23, 2021 | [–]

Those are ancillary. This is what happened to the important ones https://9to5google.com/2017/07/10/project-loon-patents/

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