Proposed USPTO Restrictions - A Looming Threat to Businesses
In August, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) opened the floodgates to public input on proposed Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) changes. More than 95% of all public comments—and nearly 85% of unique comments—opposed the proposals, according to analysis by Unified Patents. These changes, if greenlit, would overstep their authority, defy the America Invents Act (AIA), wreak havoc on the economy, and fuel a surge in Patent Assertion Entity (PAE) litigation.
This issue has ignited Open Source stakeholders and the media. If the USPTO's changes gain traction, they will usher in an era of Patent Aggression Entities — commonly known as patent trolls — setting their sights on Small- and Medium-Sized Businesses (SMBEs). The repercussions? A tangled web of negative outcomes, including questions of patent validity, that could rock the business landscape.
Additional insights from a research paper posted on SSRN, “Litigation Funding Disclosure & Patent Litigation.”Read More +
Three new stories break about Python — which is covered by over 200 packages in OIN's Linux System — and its relevance to Artificial Intelligence (AL) & Machine Learning (ML) hit the press!
The Language Model Query Language (LMQL) is built on Python — one of the many Open Source packages OIN’s Linux System definition protects — and is interactive.Read More+
October: The Month that Powers Cybersecurity Vigilance Worldwide
This month is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), where governments, educational institutions & global giants champion safeguarding critical infrastructure, fortifying systems & shielding global business operations.Read More+
One of China’s largest tech companies, eCommerce giant and OIN member Alibaba, releases 2 groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) models — Qwen-VL & Qwen-VL-Chat — that could redefine the capabilities of AI to “read” images, setting them apart from competitors.Read More+
A coalition of Open Source AI stakeholders urges European policymakers to safeguard Open Source innovation in the upcoming European Union AI Act, the world's 1st comprehensive AI law.Read More +
Collaboration between India & the United States in next-generation telecom technologies — such as Open Radio Access Network — indicate future developments in 6G could match, or possibly surpass, China.Read More +
From Japan, LINE — a Large Language Model (LLM) built on Open Source Software (OSS) & tailored to the Japanese language could impact the research community & businesses seeking to leverage cutting-edge language models.Read More+
The United States-based Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) introduces an Open Source model — IDEEA — to help India achieve its carbon-neutral goals.Read More +
The Libre Space Foundation is creating three Open Source CubeSats for space experiments, boosting Open Source space tech and Greece's role in the industry.Read More +
MEMBER NEWS
Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, & TomTom unveil Overture Maps Foundation — an Open Source mapping project — to provide developers alternatives to Google and Apple Maps.Read More +
FINOS launches "Common Cloud Controls," an open standard project addressing compliance and cloud concentration risks in financial services. OIN members GitHub, Google, NatWest Group, GitLab, RBC & Red Hat are participating.Read More +
A partnership between NASA, Hugging Face & IBM will collect data to build the Earth’s largest & first-ever Artificial Intelligence (AI) geospatial Open Source foundation model. Read More +
NatWest Group — the largest business and commercial bank in the UK, located in Edinburgh — joins OIN to affirm its dedication to Patent Non-Aggression in core Linux and related Open Source technologies. Read More +
Wells Fargo & Company is an American multinational financial services company, one of the "Big Four Banks" — alongside JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America & Citigroup — & is ranked 41st on the 2022 Fortune 500 list of the largest companies in the United States. Read More +
Helping businesses realize their ambitions since 1973, Worldline is Europe’s #1 payment processor and merchant acquirer, as well as the world’s 4th largest firm in the industry. Worldline’s technology-led, Open Source innovation drives value creation and enables sustainable economic growth.Read More +
SAVE THE DATE
The 11th annualAll Things Open 2023— a technology conference focusing on the tools, processes & people making Open Source possible. The event takes place October 15-17th in Raleigh, NC. OIN representatives hope to see you there!
Keith Bergelt, OIN’s CEO, has been invited to speak at China 1024 Programmer's Festival, attracting over 5 million developers last year. The theme — "New Intelligent Infrastructure, New Ecology of Development" — focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) & Open Source — October 23rd-25th. Hosted by the Chinese Software Developer Network, co-located events will be held across 7 cities.
Our CEO, Keith Bergelt, will share insights at the Linux Foundation Member-Only Summit in October about how Open Source patent threats are negatively impacting companies in all industries of all sizes costing them hundreds of thousands of dollars if not millions, of dollars for patent litigation. This doesn't have to be the case. Companies have other solutions to prevent and fight these attacks.
