Star Patent Infringement Lawsuit Filed Against Red Hat, Novell
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 12th Oct 2007 14:16 UTC, submitted by walterbyrd
Law and Order Groklaw reports that a company called IP Innovation, LLC, has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Novell and Red Hat. Groklaw goes into black helicopter mode, trying to find a tie between this IP Innovation thing and Microsoft - and it finds it too. A few ex-Microsoft employees now work at IP Innovation. Do with it as you please.
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RE: logical progression
by MiliTux on Fri 12th Oct 2007 17:37 UTC in reply to "logical progression"
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Now, on another related topic - This latest stupid lawsuit will probably initialize the action of the Open Invention Network, plus possibly bring down the huge patent portfolios of Novell, IBM, Intel, Red Hat, etc, on to this Patent Troll.


Unfortunately, the very definition of a patent troll is that they don't actually do anything of value. They don't "innovate". So what are you going to sue them for? They won't be infringing on any patents that the OIN has.

Unless...

Does the OIN have a patent on being a patent troll? ;)

Edited 2007-10-12 17:39

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