1.2 Subject to Section 2.2 and in consideration of the license granted in point 1.1, you grant, on behalf of yourself and your related companies (a) to any licensee and its subsidiary subsidiaries from the date of grant, a free, worldwide, non-exclusive and non-transferable license under your patents for manufacturing, the manufacture, use, import and distribution of a Linux system; and (b) represent and warrant that (i) you have the full right and authority to grant the above licenses and release set forth in Section 1.4 and that your related businesses are and will be bound by the obligations of this Agreement; and (ii) neither you nor any of your affiliates have any claim against any person for the manufacture, manufacture, use, import and distribution of a Linux system. « We are very pleased that Oracle has become a patent licensee for Open Invention Network, » said Jerry Rosenthal, general manager of Open Invention Network. « Oracle is the global leader in enterprise software. It`s a perfect example of forward-looking companies that understand the value of openness and collaborative culture in the Linux community. OIN has and will continue to acquire the intellectual property that will protect Linux developers, distributors and users today and for years to come. 3.3 If a licensee or its associate files one or more claims against you or your affiliates on the basis of products that perform substantially the same function as the Linux system and that are distributed by you or your affiliates, you may obtain the license granted to that licensee and its affiliates in accordance with section 1.2, after written notification to that licensee. Such suspension is effective, except pending the dismissal of the case. OIN is not the only patent licensing consortium to protect its members from infringement actions, and we recently profiled LOT Network`s organizational model and activities on this site. Siegel found a series of significant differences between OIN and LOT Network. First, there are no costs for new members to join the OIN. Second, while OIN is not a non-profit business, it is also not a for-profit business in the sense that it generates funds from new affiliate fees or license revenues. Third, and perhaps the main difference between OIN and LOT, OIN does not weigh on its members` patents. « It`s not about us limiting our membership portfolios beyond the requirement of cross-licensing patents in a very narrow framework, » Siegel said.
It has also attracted additional differences with companies such as RPX Corporation, which pays group comparisons to settle disputes, and unified patents that offer services that have nothing to do with licensing. At Microsoft, we assume that developers don`t have a binary choice between Windows and . . .