Welcome to this edition of Open Invention Network’s INSIDER! And remember, we want to hear about your company’s Open Source innovations & initiatives. Send announcements to marketing@openinventionnetwork.com.
LINUX SYSTEM DEFINITION NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN
If you have Open Source tech packages and/or applications you want protected from patent attacks, nominate them today! Deadline is November 21st @ 12 am EST.
We touched base with you last month and appreciate all of you who reached out to your Senators. Thanks in part to your efforts, the Senate canceled the committee meeting on PREVAIL & PERA entirely, scrapping it at the last minute, and now Congress is now in recess, but it was a great outcome that was possible only because of collaboration.
Lobbyists may try again in the next session after the election but will certainly try again next term. But what a setback. They tried hard — and failed — to get enough votes to pass these bad bills out of committee at the 11th hour & advance them for next term. Instead, they went nowhere. Our collective efforts also helped reveal their argument flaws, & will give us time to counter their false narratives. We will continue to oppose these efforts to roll back the clock & patent litigation.
Our CEO, Keith Bergelt makes IAM’s list as one of the Top 300 “World’s Leading IP Strategists” — an accolade he has received every year for over a decade.Read More +
Forbes covers how the Linux Foundation & Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) are furthering community efforts to defend Open Source Software (OSS) from Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs).Read More +
IAM looks at Why Patents are Essential for Innovation & OIN’s Role.
The world’s #1 mobile charging brand & most successful brand built on Amazon, Anker Innovations joins our Open Source community!Read More +
Citizens Bank joins OIN and other community members in its industry including Barclays, NatWest, RBC, Wells Fargo, TD Bank, Truist & others! Read More +
We welcome Liberty Mutual Group – the world’s 6th largest global Property & Casualty insurance company & the 5th largest in the United States — to OIN! Read More +
A winner of multiple awards, RSM Australia — the leading global assurance, auditing, tax & consulting services provider in Australia — joins OIN! Read More +
MEMBER NEWS
“5 of the Top 10 CRM Software Programs 2024” are OIN members — Salesforce, SugarCRM, Zoho, SAP & Microsoft.
Qwen-72B-Instruct LLM placed 1st across multiple benchmarks with Alibaba as #1 among the world’s "Top 10 Large Language Models (LLMs)," according to Hugging Face’s newest rankings.
Electronic Design interviews Francis Chow, VP & GM for In-Vehicle Operating System & Edge at Red Hat — part of IBM — about how the tech giant is addressing Software-Defined Vehicles (SDVs) & its In-Vehicle Operating System. Read More +
Alibaba develops a new video generation tool — Tora — based on Sora’s Open Source model.Read More +
UPCOMING EVENTS
TheSecure Open Source Software (SOSS) Fusion Conference goes live in Atlanta, GA, October 22-23rd. This event brings together experts & practitioners to address critical challenges in Open Source & security. Register by October 11th to save $150.
We’re proud to sponsorAll Things Open— the largest Open Source, Web & Tech Conference on the East Coast — & offering you anexclusive 20% OIN member discounton tickets Oct. 27-29th in Raleigh, NC.
Our CEO Keith Bergelt will deliver “Best Practices for Reducing Patent Risk to Open Source Software Projects” at the Linux Foundation’s annual Open Source Summit JapanOct 28-30th & then speaks at theOpen Compliance SummitOct. 30-31st about "Protecting Open Source and Companies' Intellectual Property Rights."
TheOpen Forum Academy Symposium— an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Digital Design Institute at Harvard University in Boston, MA — brings together researchers & practitioners from Open Source Nov. 13-14th.
OIN is proud to sponsor the 11th EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025 — the largest Open Source conference in Europe. Open Forum Europe (OFE) hosts the annual event to take place in Brussels, Belgium, January 31st.
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