Google said it’s expanding its Open Patent Non-Assertion...
Google said it’s expanding its Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge to include an additional 79 patents. The company made the OPN Pledge in March, committing to not sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software related to 10 of…
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its patents “unless first attacked,” said Duane Valz, Google’s senior patent counsel, in a Thursday blog post. The additional 79 patents Google added to its OPN Pledge cover software used to operate data centers, including middleware, distributed storage management, distributed database management and alarm monitoring. Google bought the 79 patents from IBM and CA Technologies, Valz said. The patents Google has chosen to include in its OPN Pledge have generally involved “back-end” technologies, but Google is considering adding patents in areas where “open-source software is also transforming the development of consumer products that people use every day,” Valz said (http://bit.ly/133zv19).