LinuxCon 2009

Keeping Open Source Open

location: Salon F

Mon Sep-21, 10:30 AM- 11:15 AM

Business

Aggressive corporations
and Patent Trolls are an ever-growing threat to global innovation. IP aggregators
purchase low-quality patents and use them as leverage to hijack potential
revenue and profits from technology companies, our largest economic driver.
Aggressive corporations use low-quality patents to harass technology innovators
to sign onerous license agreement, or to stifle growth in new products
and services. This causes entrepreneurs to reconsider launching companies,
while small and large firms alike devote more of their time and resources
to defending their IP rights.

Join Jim
Zemlin, Executive Director of the Linux Foundation and Keith Bergelt, CEO of Open Invention Network (OIN) as they discuss the
latest patent challenges to Linux, including the TomTom case and initiatives like Linux Defenders; a joint offering of OIN and the Linux Foundation, that are enabling open source
and Linux developers, distributors and users to focus on their core business.

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