《商业周刊》9月5日近年来,保罗·马瑞茨目睹了许多专利方面的交战。他曾经在微软工作过14年,上世纪90年代,微软正在快速扩大其霸主地位。马瑞茨记得当时曾访问惠普、DEC和其他大型公司,通过与这些专利大鳄签订协议,微软得以使用其关键知识产权。“我们不得不这样做,”马瑞茨说,“当时我们只是小个子。”如今,马瑞茨看到技术行业正发生类似的情形。到目前为止,Facebook、Twitter等硅谷社交媒体的宠儿大多都避免了成为正在进行的专利战争的主角,最近专利大战的中心是 BusinessWeek Sept. 5 In recent years, Paul Malitz has witnessed many parlous battles. He has worked at Microsoft for 14 years and in the 1990s, Microsoft is rapidly expanding its hegemony. At the time, Malitz remembered having visited HP, DEC, and other large companies and used Microsoft's key intellectual property through agreements with these patented cows. “We had to do that,” said Malitz. “We were just a little kid then.” Now Malitz sees a similar situation in the technology industry. To date, most darlings of social media in Silicon Valley, such as Facebook and Twitter, have avoided being the protagonists of the ongoing patent wars. The focus of the recent patent war was