IIRC Threads is 500 characters, not 240, so that wouldn’t be a something they could sue over.
However, Twitter has over 2000 patents filed, over 1400 of which are registered in the United States. They deal with malicious advertisement detection & remediation, malware, automatic management of data processing, mobile app management, interactive advertising, and electric publishing to name a few.
I can see where Musk may have found similarities between the software somewhere in the mess of their patents.
But just how would they know the internals of Threads? According to Meta, even Twitter’s claim that Threads devs include ex-Twitter employees is wrong.
To me it sounds like Twitter’s legal action is just an obstruction tactic.
IIRC Threads is 500 characters, not 240, so that wouldn’t be a something they could sue over.
However, Twitter has over 2000 patents filed, over 1400 of which are registered in the United States. They deal with malicious advertisement detection & remediation, malware, automatic management of data processing, mobile app management, interactive advertising, and electric publishing to name a few.
I can see where Musk may have found similarities between the software somewhere in the mess of their patents.
But just how would they know the internals of Threads? According to Meta, even Twitter’s claim that Threads devs include ex-Twitter employees is wrong.
To me it sounds like Twitter’s legal action is just an obstruction tactic.
I believe that’s what discovery is for.