What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
Posted Jul 15, 2008 20:18 UTC (Tue) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to by clugstj
Parent article: What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
Well Sun most likely invalidated one patent, while Red Hat got a suite of patents (Firestar and similar companies buy up patents in the cubic truck-load). Getting all of the patents invalidated would be very costly and prone to failure (most patents even with lots of prior art get kept :(. ) ... which is how the patent protection mechanism works.
Posted Jul 16, 2008 16:43 UTC (Wed)
by clugstj (subscriber, #4020)
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What Red Hat and Firestar agreed to
But having a high profile story in the media of one of your patents getting slapped down has
got to lower the value of the whole portfolio.