IBM frees 500 patents
Posted Jan 11, 2005 20:15 UTC (Tue) by
madscientist (subscriber, #16861)
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IBM frees 500 patents by bk
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IBM frees 500 patents
> regardless of IBM's actions (which I assume are revocable at any time).
You should read IBM's release, or even Groklaw's review of it:
>> In order to foster innovation and avoid the possibility that a party
> will take advantage of this pledge and then assert patents or other
> intellectual property rights of its own against Open Source Software,
> thereby limiting the freedom of IBM or any other Open Source Software
> developer to create innovative software programs, the commitment not
> to assert any of these 500 U.S. patents and all counterparts of these
> patents issued in other countries is irrevocable except that IBM
> reserves the right to terminate this patent pledge and commitment only
> with regard to any party who files a lawsuit asserting patents or
> other intellectual property rights against Open Source Software.
FYI...
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