Linux patent pool to push for ‘defensive publication’ (InfoWorld)
Linux patent pool to push for ‘defensive publication’ (InfoWorld)
A tech vendor-backed company that buys up patents in an effort to protect the Linux community from intellectual property (IP) litigation will soon launch a Web site to help inventors file defensive publications — documents that make details of an invention public, preventing others from later making patent claims on it. “The more we can mobilize this community, the fewer patents that …