Countering Microsoft Strategy For Feeding Patent Trolls
In early September 2009, Open Invention Network acquired 30 patents, from Allied Security Trust, another defensive patent management organization, that had been acquired from Microsoft through a private auction. Microsoft's sale appeared dubious because the patents were marketed as relating to Linux. If the patents had been acquired by patent trolls, they might have caused financial obstacles to Linux developers, distributors and users. OIN was able to avert this issue with the patent acquisition.
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