Open Invention Network Celebrates 10 Year Anniversary

For Immediate Release

 

Open Invention Network Celebrates Its 10 Year Anniversary

 

The Largest Patent Non-Aggression Organization in History

Reflects on its Achievements and Ongoing Trends

 

 

Durham, NC (October 6, 2015) - Open Invention Network (OIN), the largest
patent non-aggression community in history, is marking its 10 year
anniversary this fall.  Since its founding in 2005, Open Invention Network
has grown its community to over 1,700 participants – from sizable
multinational companies to key open source projects to emerging businesses.
OIN has expanded its strategic patent portfolio to more than 1,000
worldwide patents and applications.  In parallel, the zone of patent
non-aggression that is defined by OIN’s Linux System definition has evolved
to include more than 2,300 software packages, which ensures freedom of
action in core functionality for global open source projects and technology
platforms such as Linux, Red Hat, SUSE, Android, Open Stack and Apache.   

 

“Over the past ten years, we have seen explosive growth in open source
software, from the enterprise to mobile to the internet of things.  The
type of collaborative invention that open source drives is yielding higher
levels of innovation than ever before, and has demonstrated the power of
co-opetition – a balancing of cooperation and competition,” said Keith
Bergelt, CEO at Open Invention Network. “OIN’s approach to patent
non-aggression has embraced the notion of co-opetition and ushered in an
emerging cultural norm which enables broad based participation in
collaborative projects regardless of an organization’s perspective on
patents while ensuring freedom of action in key Linux and open source
technologies.”

 

OIN’s community practices patent non-aggression in core Linux and adjacent
open source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to one
another on a royalty-free basis. Patents owned by Open Invention Network
are similarly licensed royalty-free to any organization that agrees not to
assert its patents against the Linux System.  The OIN license can be signed 
online at http://www.j-oin.com/ <http://www.j-oin.com/>.

 

About Open Invention Network


Open Invention Network (OIN) is the largest patent non-aggression community
in history and supports freedom of action in Linux as a key element of open
source software. Funded by Google, IBM, NEC, Philips, Red Hat, Sony and
SUSE, OIN has more than 1,700 OIN community members and owns more than
1,000 global patents and applications.  The OIN patent license and member
cross-licenses are available royalty free to any party that joins the OIN
community.

 

For more information, visit http://www.openinventionnetwork.com
<http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/>.

 

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Ed Schauweker 
Agile Public Relations for Open Invention Network
ed@agilepr.net
(703) 963-5238


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