How about challenging the patents?

Posted Dec 31, 2011 4:47 UTC (Sat) by emkamau (guest, #76779)
Parent article: Xiph.org's "Monty" on codecs and patents

As a strategy, whenever a company asserts that its patents cover some FOSS technology, why not just challenge the validity of the patents at the patent office?

That should get companies to hesitate to use patents as a weapon against FOSS if they know that the community will go after those patents in anyway possible.

emk