Red Hat and Novell fend off a patent troll

LWN covered the IP Innovations patent infringement suit back in 2007. Now Groklaw reports that defendants Red Hat and Novell have won that suit by virtue of having invalidated the patents. "This is the result we expected and we are gratified that the jury recognized the tremendous innovative value of open source software. The jury knocked out three invalid patents that were masquerading as a new and important inventions, when they were not".

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