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Red Hat Hit With Patent Suit Over JBoss

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the at-least-it's-not-about-perfume dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A small software company is claiming that Red Hat's JBoss open source middleware violates one of its patents and is asking a court to stop Red Hat from distributing the product. Software Tree LLC claims that JBoss infringes on its database patent for 'exchanging data and commands between an object oriented system and a relational system.' Software Tree's partners include Microsoft, and that the suit was filed in Eastern Texas, which is known as a plaintiff's paradise for patent actions."

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  1. Fishy by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    From the Fscking Patent:

    One problem existing in the art is that there are no systems and methods to bridge the gap between the programming paradigm used for object-oriented systems and the programming paradigm used for relational systems.

    O RLY? They honestly want us to believe that they invented O/R mapping? Then what is this ACM paper from 1996?

    Object-relational mapping by Scott Amber

    Either somebody didn't do their homework and their patent is going to fall under a weight of prior art, or they're just plain patent trolls. Given that they waited until 2009 (9 years after the patent was issued!), I'm leaning toward the latter.

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    1. Re:Fishy by ckaminski · · Score: 5, Informative

      Disclaimer: I worked for ObjectStore for a while and for Progress (owner of ObjectStore) today.

      ObjectStore is NOT ORM. It is an OODBMS. Probably not quite what you want for prior art.

  2. Yay for selective quoting! by Slothrup · · Score: 5, Informative

    "Software Tree's partners include Microsoft, IBM, Borland, and Sun"

    Fixed that for you.

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  3. Patent mentioned in article by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    6,163,776

    Link to US PTO United States Patent: 6,163,776

  4. Re:TopLink by Ninnle+Labs,+LLC · · Score: 5, Informative
    Actually this same company already filed suit against Oracle claiming that TopLink violated their patents. http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/210664-recent-patentcopyright-infringement-cases-filed-in-u.s.-district-courts

    Software Tree claims that Oracle has infringed the '776 Patent through products including the Oracle TopLink.

    "Defendant has actual knowledge of the '776 Patent, and actual knowledge that the Oracle product known as Oracle TopLink product, and all other Oracle products that include TopLink, infringe the '776 Patent," the original complaint states.