Patent Law

In the Wind

By Gary Odom and Jordan Kuhn

The Open Invention Network,  Linux advocacy group, is publicly tilting at the big windmill: looking for prior art to invalidate the three file management patents that Microsoft asserted against TomTom. Keith Bergelt, CEO: "The patent vetting activity offered by the Linux Defenders portal offers a unique opportunity to bring to bear the collective knowledge, passion and ingenuity of the Linux community to better explore the validity of the patents..." If the guy was looking for something more than window dressing for the penguin geeks, he'd give amateur hour short shrift and call Patent Hawk.

Full post as published by The Patent Prospector on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).