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Mission Focused. Proven Success. Patent Protection.
We empower our members by providing defensive strategies to prevent, neutralize, or protect against patent threats to Open Source.
By applying proven risk-mitigation tactics, we ensure our community can focus on collaboration & innovation — protected against the constant threat of patents.
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Our 4,100+ members collectively own 3+ million+ patents & applications and generate more than $10 trillion in total revenue, creating the ability to clear patent risk in Open Source at scale. Our members agree not to threaten one another with patents that fall within the scope of the OIN cross-license.
We safeguard our members in 5,100+ Open Source packages & applications. The Linux System grows over time to keep up with advances in Open Source technology to ensure OIN community patent protection is updated.
By leveraging these processes, we eliminate – or significantly weaken – patents that are being used to threaten Open Source.
In certain circumstances, we can conduct a detailed claim-by-claim analysis of a patent when it is being used to threatened Open Source to show the claims are invalid.
By collecting, curating & sharing prior art on patents that are being used to threaten Open Source, we help prevent those patents from being effectively enforced.
We use third-party preissuance submissions to ensure overly broad patent applications – which could be used to threaten Open Source if granted – are reduced in scope or never granted.
We have acquired patents in the past to block attacks protecting our members & keeping Open Source innovation moving forward.
We proactively monitor the patent landscape to identify, track & address emerging threats to Open Source technologies.
Don’t miss out on Table 13 expanded coverage.
Linux System Table 13 increases coverage for Cloud Computing, Kubernetes & Eclipse, as well as expands coverage for modern languages by adding many new libraries for Go, Python & Rust.
Because we believe in transparency, choice & shared commitment to the future of Open Source, we are not automatically converting existing members to OIN 2.0. All OIN members need to sign an OIN 2.0 License Agreement.
Don’t miss out on Table 13 expanded coverage.
Linux System Table 13 increases coverage for Cloud Computing, Kubernetes & Eclipse, as well as expands coverage for modern languages by adding many new libraries for Go, Python & Rust.
Because we believe in transparency, choice & shared commitment to the future of Open Source, we are not automatically converting existing members to OIN 2.0. All OIN members need to sign an OIN 2.0 License Agreement.
We welcome all individuals & companies who advocate for Open Source and are focused on reducing risk from the threats of patent attacks and costly litigation.
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