Open Source Software Continues Changing the Nature of Modern Supply Chains
March 16, 2020 – Open Source Software compliance and patent non-aggression is relevant to all companies in an industry supply chain (e.g., Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), as well as all suppliers). Be sure to read …
Companies in Supply Chains Are Adopting Open Source
February 4, 2020 – Businesses that are part of supply chains need to embrace the norms of major companies in their ecosystem. As the norm for patent non-aggression in Open Source Software (OSS), the Open …
Open Invention Network unterstützt Initiative gegen Patenttrolle
November 19, 2019 – Die laufende Patentklage gegen Gnome, gegen die sich die Gnome Foundation aggressiv zur Wehr setzt, hat das Bewusstsein dafür gestärkt, dass freie Software keineswegs vor solchen Klagen sicher ist. Tatsächlich legt …
Big tech firms join the Open Invention Network to fight against patent trolls
November 19, 2019 – IBM Corp., Microsoft Corp. and the Linux Foundation are teaming up with the Open Invention Network to help protect open-source software projects from so-called patent assertion entities, more colloquially …
OIN, IBM, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation team up against open-source patent trolls
November 19th, 2019 – The Open Invention Network (OIN) is strengthening its fight against patent trolls. The organization has announced it is partnering up with IBM, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation to protect open-source software …
Open Invention Network teams up with IBM, Linux Foundation, and Microsoft to protect open-source software from patent trolls
November 19, 2019 – Open-source software — heck, all software — has been plagued by patent trolls for decades. The Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest patent non-aggression community in history, is now expanding protection …
Pro-Linux IP consortium Open Invention Network will ‘pivot’ to take on patent trolls
November 4, 2019 – Keith Bergelt, CEO of the Open Invention Network (OIN), says the organisation is “pivoting to focus on” risks from “non-practising entit[ies]” also known as patent trolls.
The OIN was founded in 2005 by …
Leave GNOME alone: This patent troll is asking for trouble
September 26, 2019 – Rothschild Patent Imaging (RPI) suing the GNOME Foundation for violating its “wireless image distribution system and method patent” (US Patent No. 9,936,086) doesn’t make much …
The Open Invention Network: An Intellectual Property Company Using Patents to Encourage Open-Source Development and Innovation
August 29, 2019 – At first glance, the term co-opetition — a mashup of cooperation and competition — seems nothing more than an oxymoron. But in the open-source software world, it describes an approach that’s vital …
Microsoft readies exFAT patents for Linux and open source
August 28, 2019 – For years, Microsoft used its patents as a way to profit from open-source products. The poster-child for Microsoft’s intellectual property aggression were the File Allocation …
Protecting Blockchain Innovation Through Open Source Patent Non-Aggression
July 24, 2019 – Blockchain, or Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), is arguably in its second and more impressive phase, moving beyond cryptocurrencies to disrupt multiple vertical markets. It’s seen as a key to underpinning sea changes in …
Global Automotive Company Group Renault Has Joined The Open Invention Network
July 24, 2019 – Below is our recent interview with Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network:
Q: Hi Keith, it’s great to speak with you again. It looks like another global automotive company …
Open Invention Network, the Linux-based patent non-aggression community, exceeds 3,000 licensees
June 19, 2019 – Some businesses, such as pharmaceuticals, still spend enormous amounts of time and money on intellectual property (IP) fights. Thanks to the Open Invention Network …
Advancing Open Source Innovation in Cybersecurity
May 7, 2019 – OIN seeks to secure the inclusion of open source in technology without fear of litigation from patent trolls
Due to the convergence of an escalation in the number of security vulnerabilities, an increase …