Jun
13
Red Hat settles JBoss Hibernate patent suit
Posted by Dirk Avery at 3:52 pm under Litigation, Patent.
Forget your worries about using JBoss Hibernate. Users worldwide now have a royalty-free, irrevocable license to use the technology. Apparently, some portions of the technology were covered by U.S. Patent No. 6,101,502. From InternetNews:
Legal eagles on staff with Red Hat are a busy group these days. The Linux distribution leader just announced […]
Jun
11
Quanta v. LG
Posted by Dirk Avery at 10:44 am under Patent, Supreme Court.
Patent exhaustion is alive and well, even for method patents. The key from the Supreme Court’s slip opinion:
Nothing in this Court’s approach to patent exhaustion supports LGE’s argument that method claims, as a category, are never exhaustible. A patented method may not be sold in the same way as an article or device, but […]