<div dir="ltr">Larry, what about companies that separate their patent-holding entity from their operational entity, the entity that touches Open Source, and the entity that brings lawsuits? I do know for a fact that Qualcomm operates a separate entity for their Open Source involvement.<div><br></div><div> Thanks</div><div><br></div><div> Bruce</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 10:42 AM Lawrence Rosen <<a href="mailto:lrosen@rosenlaw.com">lrosen@rosenlaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507WordSection1"><p class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507MsoPlainText" style="margin-left:0.5in">Nicholas Matthew Neft Weinstock wrote:<br>> . If a program has functionality covered by a patent owned by a completely unrelated 3rd party, the program's license doesn't give all the Patent rights a user needs. At best, you could claim that the program's license gives all the Patent rights FROM THE IDENTIFIED CONTRIBUTORS that a user needs.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507MsoPlainText">Don't forget the important defensive termination provisions in some licenses. If the copyright license to an important open source program is terminated because of the filing by that third party of a patent lawsuit against that program, this may be a sufficient defense for protecting our software. Even third parties must be careful who they sue.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507MsoPlainText">/Larry<u></u><u></u></p><p class="gmail-m_4355193190367802507MsoPlainText"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Bruce Perens - Partner, <a href="http://OSS.Capital" target="_blank">OSS.Capital</a>.</div></div></div></div>