Open Invention Network Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary
The Largest Patent Non-Aggression Organization in History Reflects on Its Achievements and Ongoing Trends
UnitedStack Joins Open Invention Network to Support Patent Non-Aggression in the Cloud
DURHAM, NC — (Marketwired) — 12/05/13 — Open Invention Network (OIN), the organization formed to protect Linux, announced today that UnitedStack, a leading OpenStack solutions provider based in Beijing and Santa Clara, has become a licensee. OIN is supporting patent non-aggression covering Linux use in the cloud and is helping open cloud companies obtain free patent cross-licenses from more than 640 OIN community participants. These cross-licenses cover Linux System packages that power under
Open Invention Network Expands Community Protection With Hundreds of New Linux System Software Packages
DURHAM, NC — (Marketwired) — 07/09/13 — Open Invention Network (OIN) has furthered its mission to enable and protect Linux by expanding the Linux System technologies covered by its protective network of royalty-free cross-licenses and by its defensive patent portfolio to include nearly three hundred new Linux software packages. These additions contain a number of packages from notable technologies and projects such as Python (e.g., Django, PyPy, and Twisted), MongoDB, OpenStack, Ruby, and we
Defensive Patent Management Pioneer Open Invention Network Exceeds 500th Licensee Milestone
DURHAM, NC — (Marketwire) — 02/13/13 — Open Invention Network (OIN) today announced that the OIN licensee community exceeds 500 licensees. IBM, NEC, Novell, Philips, Red Hat and Sony created OIN with the mission to promote a positive ecosystem for Linux through the purchase and royalty-free licensing of strategic patents.While numerous defensive patent management entities have formed to protect small groups of companies, OIN is distinguished as a resource available to all of the technology i