Lawyers Weigh In on Linux Patent Threat (eWeek)
eWeek talks
with a few lawyers about Linux and software patents. "
Kelly Talcott, an intellectual property partner in the New York office of the national law firm of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP, agreed. 'OSRM's announcement simply puts a number to a fact that the software industry has been living with for years. With the increasing number of issued software patents comes the increasing possibility of being sued for infringement. This affects all flavors of software, not just Linux.'"
Posted Aug 12, 2004 18:52 UTC (Thu)
by rcbixler (guest, #11917)
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Pretty interesting how the article omits mention of the Timeline patent infringement Lawyers Weigh In on Linux Patent Threat (eWeek)
lawsuit against Microsoft's SQL Server. As I recall, the suit was successful and Timeline
went after some Microsoft customers as well as Microsoft itself. So much for this article's
implication that somehow proprietary software automatically includes indemnification
against patent infringement lawsuits.