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January 14, 2004 Companies outside the United States that use the open-source operating system now face the threat of legal action from the SCO Group, which is making licenses available worldwide. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., SCOsource, legal action, Caldera Systems Inc., license, Linux, intellectual property, threat, lawsuit, U.S., open source, IP, operating system

May 18, 2007 Company identifies infringed-on patents, invites infringers to strike licensing deals. Not many takers, so far. TAGS: patent, open-source software, Novell Inc., open source, reader, Week in review, intellectual property, Microsoft Corp., Linux, software company, U.S.

August 11, 2004 Open-source operating system's inventor works to prevent hijacking of Linux name--a battle he won years ago in the United States. TAGS: Linus Torvalds, Adelaide, trademark, Linux, Australia, open source, open-source community, intellectual property, lawyer, IP, U.S.

January 6, 2005 Attorney Richard Wilder says CIOs will increasingly need to weigh indemnification policies before making purchases. TAGS: intellectual property, patent infringement, infringement, SCO Group Inc., lawsuit, threat, open-source software, Novell Inc., Linux, software company, U.S., Microsoft Corp.

December 5, 2003 Chief Executive Darl McBride invokes the Founding Fathers in his company's battle over intellectual property rights. Also: SCO postpones its quarterly earnings report. TAGS: SCO Group Inc., copyright protection, intellectual property, Unix, GNU, intellectual property right, Free Software Foundation, earnings report, DMCA, Linux, GPL, open source, battle, IBM Corp., Red Hat Inc., letter

January 11, 2005 Big Blue will let open-source developers use 500 software patents without fear of infringement lawsuits. TAGS: patent, software patent, IBM Corp., open-source software, open source, Linux, fear, open standard, Linux seller, intellectual property, operating system, HP, U.S., database, Microsoft Corp.

August 3, 2004 President Bush signs a trade deal that extends controversial software patents and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to Australia. TAGS: free-trade agreement, software patent, DMCA, Australia, rights-management, open-source software, law, agreement, intellectual property, U.S., president, Linux

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