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Liability of Users for Patent InfringementLiability of Users for Patent InfringementPosted Apr 24, 2011 19:02 UTC (Sun) by wahern (subscriber, #37304)In reply to: Liability of Users for Patent Infringement by ThinkRob Parent article: Google Linux servers hit with $5m patent infringement verdict (The Register)
Well, they didn't just sue Google. Here's a list of defendants from their Amended Complaint 2011-01-24. Don't infer anything about these defendants--other than Google--regarding the trial verdict.
Red Hat preemptively sued in 2009 for a declaratory judgment. Pacer charges per document so I can't figure out how out all of this unfolded (without paying), but here's the defendant list in Facebook's 2010-09-03 Amended Answer to Bedrock's crossclaim. I would guess these are all Red Hat customers impleaded by Bedrock.
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Liability of Users for Patent Infringement Posted Apr 24, 2011 21:58 UTC (Sun) by orcmid (guest, #74478) [Link]
The link to justia.com provided by FOSSPatents earlier on this thread provides a lot of the soap opera: http://dockets.justia.com/docket/texas/txedce/6:2009cv002...
I got tired looking through it, and I don't think one can find actual exhibits or expert testimony.
What is interesting is that some of these companies have extensive web farms for their own operations. We know that Google's uses Linux. I presume these other users do also.
It is interesting that hosting services are included. I assume because they are engaging in commerce by leasing the use of LAMP-based hosted sites, etc. So my hosting service could easily make it onto this list, not to mention sites where I am an user (Facebook, amazon.com, etc.). Ick.
I suppose free cloud services (E.g., my Amazon Cloud Drive) may not be very free for long. And we all wait patiently to learn there has been a workaround that removes the infringing code from the Linux kernel.
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