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Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek)
InformationWeek reports that Red Hat is being sued for patent infringement by a company called Software Tree. The patent involved appears to be one of many covering the idea of an impedance-matching layer between an object-oriented system and a relational database. "Red Hat acquired open source developer JBoss in 2006 for $420 million. Software Tree contends that certain of Red Hat's JBoss products, including the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, which includes JBoss Hibernate, step on its patent.
'The infringing products have no substantial noninfringing uses,' Software Tree says in court papers. The lawsuit also names Dell, Hewlett-Packard, and Genuitec as defendants because the companies sell JBoss-based software or include it on their products."
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Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 4, 2009 22:31 UTC (Wed) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link]
They patented translation layers? I can't see that one holding up.
Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 4, 2009 22:40 UTC (Wed) by sspr (guest, #39636) [Link]
Software patents (and their inevitable lawsuits, since anything patented in software has been done at least at a dozen other locations as well) make my stomach turn each time. How long before someone tries to kill my favourite software project? How long before a law maker realizes the insanity of this system ?
I admire all the organisations which try to do something about the problem, but their efforts look like a drop on a hot plate... Millions of patents... imagine that...
Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 4, 2009 23:14 UTC (Wed) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
> How long before a law maker realizes the insanity of this system
The system is not insane. It is a rather effective tax on technology companies for the benefits of the lawyers. Since many law makers are lawyers themselves, it is hard to expect that they would support a change that could harm their friends or colleagues.
So don't hold your breath for quick solution of the software and business methods patent problem.
Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 5, 2009 20:38 UTC (Thu) by sepreece (subscriber, #19270) [Link]
The Bilski decision suggests that a quick solution may be just around the corner. Farther off than I could hold my breath, but quick in terms of major legal shifts. Needs a Supreme Court affirmation of Bilski and just a last little bit of expansion by the Patent Court.
Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 5, 2009 21:35 UTC (Thu) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942) [Link]
> Needs a Supreme Court affirmation of Bilski
The Supreme Court may well reverse the Bilski case. At the end, this is the court that refused to deal with the resent extension of the copyrights and that reversed pretty much Betamax decision.
J2EE? Posted Mar 4, 2009 22:47 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
I think any J2EE implementation may be exposed here. Essentially, these are EJBs (most likely entity beans) in action, if I understand the claims correctly.
J2EE? Posted Mar 4, 2009 23:24 UTC (Wed) by jamesh (guest, #1159) [Link]
The patent seems to be targeting Hibernate rather than something mandated by J2EE.
The patent probably covers a number of other Object Relational Mappers that separate the object class definitions from the object <-> database mapping information. SQLAlchemy might be covered, for instance.
J2EE? Posted Mar 4, 2009 23:28 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]
Right, thanks for the clarification.
Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 5, 2009 7:47 UTC (Thu) by dulles (guest, #45450) [Link]
STEVE BALLMER IS THE FALL OF MICROSOFT
If you haven't noticed, Steve Ballmer recently took over Microsoft. Since then, we find the monopoly has begun suing everything Linux.
Bill Gates, a true capitalist, never bothered with Linux because he was smart. But, he's gone now, replaced by an idiot.
Steve Ballmer is that idiot. This bald 65-year-old is not just stupid, but he's on a legal-binge. Yes, you know what that means.
For the next few years, we'll see Ballmersoft sue everyone on the planet, because they can't compete.
There's no "innovation" at Microsoft and it stopped with NT/XP/Vista/7 around 1993.
In fact, the core of Windows hasn't changed since 1993. It's an unstable, insecure, bad OS designed by morons.
Red Hat's JBoss Software Draws Patent Suit (InformationWeek) Posted Mar 5, 2009 15:16 UTC (Thu) by cry_regarder (subscriber, #50545) [Link]
That's nice dear
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