{"id":63922,"date":"2017-02-17T12:43:25","date_gmt":"2017-02-17T20:43:25","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-22T11:15:33","modified_gmt":"2025-01-22T19:15:33","slug":"protecting-innovation-cloud-azure-ip-advantage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensource.microsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/17\/protecting-innovation-cloud-azure-ip-advantage\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting innovation in the cloud with Azure IP Advantage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This month Microsoft <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/protecting-innovation-cloud\/\">announced<\/a> the Microsoft Azure IP Advantage program. This new program is the industry\u2019s most comprehensive protection against intellectual property (IP) risks, using Microsoft\u2019s patent portfolio to help protect our cloud customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Microsoft Azure IP Advantage: Protecting Innovation in the Microsoft Cloud\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/qRQqYn1mmG8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our goal is to help foster a community that values and protects innovation and investments in the cloud,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/blog\/2017\/02\/08\/protecting-innovation-cloud\/\">wrote<\/a> Brad Smith, Microsoft President and Chief Legal Officer. \u201cWe want software developers to be able to focus on coding, and businesses and enterprises to be able to respond to the changing needs of their customers with agility without worrying about lawsuits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/aka.ms\/AzureIPAdvantage\">Microsoft Azure IP Advantage program<\/a> will include the following benefits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Our best-in-industry intellectual property protection with uncapped indemnification coverage will now also cover any open source technology that powers Microsoft Azure services, such as Hadoop used for Azure HD Insight.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We will make 10,000 Microsoft patents available to customers that use Azure services for the sole purpose of enabling them to better defend themselves against patent lawsuits against their services that run on top of Azure. 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