:A No-Fly Zone to Protect Linux From Patent Trolls
A No-Fly Zone to Protect Linux From Patent Trolls Dec 9, 2008, 13 :35 UTC (10 Talkback[s]) (4814 reads) (Other stories by Roger Parloff)
"The most novel feature of the new program, to be known as Linux Defenders, will be its call to independent open-source software developers all over the world to start submitting their new software inventions to Linux Defenders (Web site due to be operational Tuesday) so that the group's attorneys and engineers can, for no charge, help shape, structure, and document the invention in the form of a "defensive publication."
"Linux Defenders will then also see to it that the publication, duly attributing authorship of the invention to the developer who submitted it, is filed on the IP.com Web site, a database used by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and other patent examiners throughout the world when they are trying to determine whether a proposed patent is truly novel, as any patentable invention is supposed to be."
