In an amended SEC filing ahead of its IPO, Reddit warned potential investors that "...on March 18, 2024, Nokia Technologies sent us a letter indicating they believed that Reddit infringes certain of their patents. We will evaluate their claims." Nokia, of course, leaned into, ahem, patent licensing and networking equipment as its business many years ago, and reminded people of it with last year’s logo redesign. Companies paying Nokia licensing fees include HTC, Apple, and more recently, Oppo.
Nah, fuck spez. Patent trolls suck, but I hope they all go down together.
Thing is, if a patent applies to Reddit, there’s a chance it applies to Lemmy or other boards as well. Unless it’s very specific to Reddit alone, this is probably not a good thing.