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Red Hat Settles 2 Patent Lawsuits–1 More to Go

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Sean Michael Kerner
Jun 11, 2008

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“In March of this year Red Hat expanded its legal firepower by
hiring lawyers Rob Tiller and Richard Fontana. Three months later
it’s evident that these two have been busy as today Red Hat
announced that it has settled two of three outstanding patent
lawsuits.

“‘We’re putting the patent issue to rest with the settlement of
patent litigation involving Firestar Software, Inc. and DataTern
Inc. that provides broad protections not only for Red Hat
customers, but for the larger open source community,’ Red Hat
spokesperson Kerrin Catallozzi wrote in an email to
InternetNews.com…”


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