Getting Inventive With Software Patents
The dangers of software patents for free software have always been a hot issue. But with the news that Red Hat and Novell are being sued for alleged patent infringement by IP Innovation, the matter has...
View ArticleThe Patent System is Broken.. and How NOT to Fix It
OIN interviews, announcement of "Linux Defenders" and general criticism of this patent strategy
View ArticleOpen Invention Network seeks prior art to burn FAT patents
The Open Invention Network has launched a project to find prior art for Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem. The OIN believes that the FAT patents will not hold up to scrutiny and the...
View ArticleLinux group seeks to overturn three Microsoft Patents
The Open Invention Network (OIN), a Linux advocacy group today said it is publicly seeking invention data that would effectively overturn three Microsoft patents that the software giant has charged are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Interoperability Crushed by the TomTom Case
Microsoft slammed for using software patents against interoperability, the OIN responds too late
View ArticleMicrosoft sends mixed patent message
In the wake of the Open Invention Network challenge to Microsoft’s patents related to Linux, the company’s good cop-bad cop routine has gone into overdrive.
View ArticleMicrosoft: Red Hat Should be Happy to Take Microsoft Patents
The latest developments in Microsoft's subversive battle against better-priced (and simply better) competition
View ArticleOIN Explains TomTom’s Settlement with Microsoft (and Other Patent News)
TomTom may reveal the details of its FAT settlement, Topolanek escapes the room, and an IBMer might become the next PTO Director
View ArticleOpen Invention Network starts buying patents
The Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced that it was starting a new programme to acquire patents from "entrepreneurial inventors".
View ArticleMicrosoft and A Patent Checkmate of My Dreams
Microsoft tried to auction off some patents that they claim relate to Linux. Patent trolls could have bought them. Instead Open Invention Network (OIN) got them. Why would Microsoft wish to get rid of...
View ArticleProtecting Linux from Microsoft (Yes, Microsoft Got Caught)
Earlier this week, the Wall Street Journal’s Nick Wingfield broke a story on Microsoft selling a group of patents to a third party. The end result of this story is good for Linux, even though it...
View ArticleThe Real Debate About OIN
The main downside of the OIN is not its secrecy but its function as endorser of software patents; Groklaw and Müller carry on arguing
View ArticleFreedom in Phones Under a Regime of Software Patents, DRM Jail, and Other...
Samsung appears to be dumping LiMo and OIN brags about expanding its membership, which does more to endorse software patents rather than abolish them
View ArticleGroklaw Responds to FUD About OIN
Response to the noise made by a "campaigner" for hire, who tries to characterise the pro-Linux OIN - not Microsoft/Apple/SCO - as an "evil empire"
View ArticleKDE e.V. joins Open Invention Network
KDE e.V. is pleased to announce that we have joined the Open Invention Network community as a licensee. Open Invention Network was founded as a way to help defend the Linux ecosystem, and by extension...
View ArticleGetting Inventive With Software Patents
The dangers of software patents for free software have always been a hot issue. But with the news that Red Hat and Novell are being sued for alleged patent infringement by IP Innovation, the matter has...
View ArticleThe Patent System is Broken.. and How NOT to Fix It
OIN interviews, announcement of "Linux Defenders" and general criticism of this patent strategy
View ArticleOpen Invention Network seeks prior art to burn FAT patents
The Open Invention Network has launched a project to find prior art for Microsoft's patents on the FAT filesystem. The OIN believes that the FAT patents will not hold up to scrutiny and the...
View ArticleLinux group seeks to overturn three Microsoft Patents
The Open Invention Network (OIN), a Linux advocacy group today said it is publicly seeking invention data that would effectively overturn three Microsoft patents that the software giant has charged are...
View ArticleMicrosoft Interoperability Crushed by the TomTom Case
Microsoft slammed for using software patents against interoperability, the OIN responds too late
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