Best Practices for Reducing Patent Risk to OSS Projects
summary
Open Invention Network describes a shift from operating-company risk to non-practicing-entity (PAE) attacks and shows concrete defenses: a cross-license tied to 4500 packages, about 3.35 million patents controlled by ~4,000 licensees, and periodic updates to the Linux System Definition every ~2 years to expand scope. OIN partners with Unified and others, spending roughly $15 million so far to invalidate poor patents with 60+ wins, and proposes new Zones for CNCF, RISC-V/open hardware and AI risk mitigation.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:04OIN’s mission and patent threats
- 8:08Linux system definition
- 13:27Expanding OIN’s scope
- 18:26Patent assertion entity risks
- 23:11Open Source Zone strategies
- 27:30Patent defense funding impact
- 31:02Future risks in hardware and AI
- 33:50Nominating technologies
- 37:28Call to action
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