Global Payments Leader — Worldline — Joins OIN
September 20, 2023 — Tech Company News reports that Worldline — a payment services leader, leveraging Open Source to develop some of the world’s most advanced payments services available & generating over $4.4 billion Euros in …
OIN Protects Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Open Source Software
September 20, 2023 — Patent Lawyer Magazine reports that according to Contrive Datum Research, the market for Machine Learning (ML) alone is expected to reach $209 billion (U.S. dollars) by 2030. The market …
OIN Reduces Patent Risks for Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence
September 19, 2023 — Open Source Software (OSS) plays an important role in both Machine Learning (ML) & Artificial Intelligence (AI), but it is also at increasing risk for patent lawsuits. While Python …
Open Source Fosters Safer & Faster Digital, Financial Transactions
September 19, 2023 — Open Source technologies continue to be critical for advancing virtually every industry, including Fintech. As a global leader in payments services and a technology partner-of-choice for merchants, banks, and …
OIN Safeguards Open Source Software & Artificial Intelligence
September 18, 2023 — The trajectory of Machine Learning (ML) is underscored by the attributes of Open Source Software (OSS) platforms, such as Meta’s Llama which offers swift data analysis, trend spotting, and the generation …
Fintech NatWest Group Joins OIN to Reduce Patent Risk
September 18, 2023 — One-way financial institutions can reduce patent risk — which is rapidly increasing in Banking & Financial Services — is by joining patent pools. Doing this will minimize costs and …
NatWest Delivers Open Source Digital Financial Services & Mobile Banking Solutions
September 12, 2023 — The financial services and fintech industries rely on Open Source technologies to deliver their services as they bring technology development in-house. These new economic changes require new patent aggression …
United Kingdom Banking Leader — NatWest Group — Joins OIN
September 12, 2023 — As a community, nearly 4,000 OIN members practice patent non-aggression in core Linux and adjacent Open Source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to one another on a royalty-free …
NatWest Reinforces its Commitment to Protect & Advocate Open Source Innovation
September 12, 2023 — Patent protection is crucial in safeguarding continued innovation in today’s high-tech, complex and rapidly changing world. For fintech, the number of patents and applications in the sector, as well …
Shopify vs. Patent Trolls: Defending Entrepreneurs & Innovation
June 7, 2023 — Jess Hertz, General Counsel of Shopify — an OIN community member — writes a blog about their efforts to defend entrepreneurs and innovation against patent trolls. “Shopify and our entrepreneurs are …
USPTO Proposed Rules Will Strengthen the Power of Patent Trolls, Resulting in Negative Outcomes
June 2, 2023 — Patent trolls — also known as Non-Practicing Entities (NPEs) or Patent Assertion Entities (PAEs) — cause more than enough trouble. Nonetheless, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) …
OIN Opposes Patent Rule Changes
June 2, 2023 — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is trying to rush a new controversial rule through legislation without Congressional approval. The proposed changes eliminate the ability for 3rd parties …
Stand up for Open Source Software Patent Defense
June 1, 2023 — The Linux Foundation speaks up — along with Open Invention Network & Unified Patents’ executives — about the proposed rules issued by the U.S. Patent Trademark Office (USPTO) that will help patent trolls, raise …
Open Source Sustainability Strategy Leads Amazon Web Services to Commit Its Entire Portfolio to OIN
May 10, 2023 — Amazon Web Services (AWS) supports Open Source on a long-term scale “and sustainability is our guiding principle for these investments,” AWS Kubernetes team lead Nathan Taber shared with sdxcentral®. Sustainable Open …
Study Demonstrates Companies that Participate in OIN are more Innovative
April 6, 2023 — A recent study, “Effect of an open patent pool strategy on technology innovation in terms of creating shared value” demonstrates empirically that organizations which participate in OIN are more innovative. The …