[ Thanks to smk for this link.
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“As part of the Linux Defender program, the OIN will
look at issued patents in an effort called the post issue Peer to
Patent effort. If warranted, the OIN would help challenge an
already issued patent if it believes it is invalid based on
information it has or is made aware of by the open source
community.“The Linux Defender effort will also do peer review of pending
patent publications in an effort to help validate that a patent
application is non-obvious and has not already been invented.“Linux Defender will also engage in a practice known as
Defensive Publications. A Defensive Publication is a set of
documents that describes a production or method, which could then
become a source for defining prior art in the patent awarding
process. Applicants for U.S. Patents are expected to show that
their invention is obvious and original. The Linux Defender
Defensive Publications effort is an attempt to identify everything
that has already been invented by open source and Linux
technologies.”