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 IBM, Suse, Philips, Red Hat and Sony, its purpose being to cross-license patents, royalty-free, subject to a non-aggression agreement, where the licensee agrees not to assert the patents against the Linux community.