Dennis Walsh
Jul 20, 2017 · 1 min read

Hi Lee,

Thanks for the question! Your reading aligns with my interpretation. The only clarification is my interpretation restricts the loss of the license to the patent grant only. And given the plain reading of the patent grant, it’s hard to imagination a different interpretation… though judges never cease to amaze me.

My point is that the Facebook patent grant seems superfluous and the revocation toothless given that I can’t find patents protecting React. Perhaps a Facebook attorney (or someone else) will chime in with something I missed and we can kick around that patent’s applicability to React. But until that shoe drops, I don’t see a patent infringement case.

To the extent my blog didn’t make that clear, please let me know what was confusing and I’ll try to clear it up!

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