Red Hat and Novell fend off a patent troll: "LWN covered the IP Innovations
patent infringement suit back in 2007. Now Groklaw reports
that defendants Red Hat and Novell have won that suit by virtue of having
invalidated the patents. 'This is the result we expected and we are
gratified that the jury recognized the tremendous innovative value of open
source software. The jury knocked out three invalid patents that were
masquerading as a new and important inventions, when they were not.'"
