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TD Bank Group Joins the Open Invention Network Community
Durham, NC (February 15, 2021) – Open Invention Network (OIN), the organization formed to safeguard open source software (OSS) and now the largest patent non-aggression [ … ]
Open Invention Network Celebrates Its 15th Year Protecting Core Linux and Open Source from Patent Aggression
OIN’s efforts have enabled businesses and organizations to confidently invest their resources to develop, integrate and use open source software.
Durham, NC (November 17, 2020) – Open [ … ]
LIXIL Joins the Open Invention Network Community
Durham, NC (November 3, 2020) – Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, announced today that LIXIL Group Corporation [ … ]
Two Big Banks Join OIN to Combat Patent Assertion Entities
February 21, 2021 — Christine Hall, a reporter with ITPro Today, writes how patents are considered to be Linux’s and Open Source’s greatest Intellectual Property (IP) [ … ]
Banks Signal New Anti-Patent Troll Strategies
February 17, 2021 — Within two days of each other, two major banks, United Kingdom-based Barclays and Canada-based TD Bank announced they joined the OIN [ … ]
Barclays Deepens Fight Against Patent Trolls
February 17, 2021 — Payment Expert’s article writes the climate for fraud has elevated as global economies continue to battle the coronavirus pandemic and consumer habits [ … ]