patent infringement suits

A struggling Silicon Valley maker of flash memory chips filed a pair of sweeping patent infringement suits on Monday against Samsung of South Korea.

RedHat settles its patent infringement lawsuit filed by Firestar Software and DataTern in Federal Court for an undisclosed amount.

Part of the settlement that RedHat made was made on behalf of the Open Source Community--indemnifying users and its customers from future infringement suits by said parties.

RedHat's corporate opinion is that software patents spoil innovation and hinder new developments. Their opininon has not kept them out of the courtroom for patent infringement suits however.

They are currently still involved in a patent suit with IP Innovations over 3 of its user interface...