By opening up its massive patent portfolio to Linux and open-source companies via the Open Invention Network, Huawei shows just how important open patents are to software development. It’s also …read more Source:: Linux
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Huawei joins major US-based open-source patent protection consortium OIN
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•In a move many will find surprising, Huawei is joining the Linux and Open Invention Network, the leading US-based open-source patent non-aggression group. …read more Source:: Linux
Major Japanese hardware vendor joins Open Invention Network
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•Usually, it’s Linux and open-source companies which join the Linux patent consortium Open Invention Network. Now, Japanese hardware firm Taiyo Yuden, realizing technology’s future lies with open source, has joined …read more Source:: Linux
Open Invention Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open-source software from patent trolls
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•Together, they’ll support Unified Patents’ Open Source Zone. This move will deter patent trolls from suing for fear they’ll find their patents annulled. …read more Source:: Linux
Open Invention Network comes to GNOME’s aid in patent troll fight
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•GNOME, the popular Linux desktop, is under attack by Rothschild Patent Imaging, a patent troll. But the non-profit GNOME has friends in this fight. The Open Invention Network is helping …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft readies exFAT patents for Linux and open source
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•For years, Microsoft has profited from its FAT file system patents. Now the company is making it explicit that it’s freeing its remaining exFAT patents for Open Invention Network members. …read more Source:: Linux
Open Invention Network, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3,000 licensees
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•While some businesses remain entangled in patent wars, the companies which have joined the OIN are freeing Linux from patent fights. …read more Source:: Linux
Major China company, Alibaba, joins Open Invention Network patent protection group
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•Alibaba and Ant Financial are trying to cool things off in the Sino-US intellectual property wars by joining the pro-Linux Open Invention Network patent protection organization. …read more Source:: Linux
What does Microsoft joining the Open Invention Network mean for you?
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•The move opens up Microsoft’s 60,000 patents to Open Invention Network members who are using them in the Linux system. What does that mean, specifically? Read on. …read more Source:: Linux
Microsoft open-sources its patent portfolio
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•By joining the Open Invention Network, Microsoft is offering its entire patent portfolio — with the legacy exception of its Windows and desktop application code — to all of the …read more Source:: Linux