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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. Wasn't Bilski supposed to have stopped these??? by BUL2294 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm no lawyer but wasn't the Bilski decision supposed to put an end to these software patent lawsuits & (essentially) invalidate software patents? Software patents don't deal with "machines" or "transformations", so I'm confused as to how these continue... Or is the Bilski case waiting to have their day in front of the US Supreme Court and such cases will continue until a ruling comes down from SCOTUS...

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  2. Re:Prior art? BO vs. Cognos by H0p313ss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Furthermore... they seem to be trying to patent what TopLink was already doing prior to 1996.

    For those who care, TopLink has now been opensourced as EclipseLink

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