Keynote: Legal Initiative Update – “OIN Pivot”
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Open Invention Network pivots from mainly policing hostile operating companies to proactively invalidate poor-quality patents, launching a funded program with the Linux Foundation and fund challenges with LF and two operating companies to buy prior‑art reviews and file legal attacks. Targeting non‑practicing entities that fuel litigation — one cited plaintiff filed 714 suits over six years — the plan pairs prior‑art collection, Sherman & Sterling–style counsel, and coordinated legal filings to neutralize nuisance patents.
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