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OIN patents
OIN patents
Posted Nov 8, 2006 2:49 UTC (Wed) by mitchskin (subscriber, #32405)Parent article: On Novell and Microsoft
It would seem, however, from an inexpert reading, that the relevant patents have been truly assigned to OIN, and are no longer Novell's to non-license to anybody. If that reading is correct, then OIN's position is just as strong as it was before.I'm also inexpert, but I'm not sure about this. On OIN's site the list of patents labeled "Open Invention Network's Currently Owned Patents" does include some of the Commerce One patents that have been mentioned as being OINs big guns. On the other hand, that list only has 13 patents on it, and Novell bought 39 Commerce One patents. What happened to the others? Are they important at all?
I spent some time on the USPTO web site searching for "commerce one", and "jgr acquisition" (the entity Novell used to secretly buy the patents), but I haven't tried to read through them all. It would be nice if Novell made some clear public statements on this one but I wouldn't be surprised if they left us in the dark.
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OIN patents
Posted Nov 9, 2006 0:38 UTC (Thu) by garloff (subscriber, #319) [Link]
It's my understanding that the patents really have been assigned to OIN.And Novell wants OIN to have its full defensive effectiveness.
Against any attacker, which might include MSFT -- though Novell would
not expect MSFT to get into aggressive patent litigation -- now less than
before.