{"id":649361,"date":"2013-03-28T11:41:46","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webpronews.com\/?p=222824"},"modified":"2013-03-28T11:41:46","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T15:41:46","slug":"google-pledges-not-to-sue-open-source-distributors-over-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649361","title":{"rendered":"Google Pledges Not To Sue Open Source Distributors Over Patents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google announced the ‘Open Patent Non-Assertion’ Pledge<\/a> today, saying that it pledges not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. <\/p>\n

“We\u2019ve begun by identifying 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google\u2014open-source versions of which are now widely used,” says<\/a> Senior Patent Counsel Duane Valz (pictured). “Over time, we intend to expand the set of Google\u2019s patents covered by the pledge to other technologies.”<\/p>\n

On the pledge site, Google maintains a list<\/a> of pledged patents, which include: System and method for analyzing data records, Large-scale data processing in a distributed and parallel processing environment, System and method for efficient large-scale data processing, System and method for analyzing data records, Joining tables in a MapReduce procedure, Processing data in a MapReduce framework, System and method for analyzing data records (another one), System and method for large-scale data processing using an application-independent framework, Joining tables in a MapReduce procedure (another one), and Processing data in a MapReduce environment. <\/p>\n

Google says it hopes the pledge will serve as a model for the industry. We’ll see. <\/p>\n

As far as Google is concerned, the benefits of the pledge are: transparency, breadth, defensive protection and durability. <\/p>\n

“Our pledge builds on past efforts by companies like IBM and Red Hat and the work of the Open Invention Network (of which Google is a member),” says Valz. “It also complements our efforts on cooperative licensing, where we\u2019re working with like-minded companies to develop patent agreements that would cut down on lawsuits.”<\/p>\n

Google notes that it will also continue to support patent reforms to improve patent quality and reduce “excessive” litigation. <\/p>\n

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Google announced the ‘Open Patent Non-Assertion’ Pledge today, saying that it pledges not to sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software on specified patents, unless first attacked. “We\u2019ve begun by identifying 10 patents relating to MapReduce, a computing model for processing large data sets first developed at Google\u2014open-source versions of which are now […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649361\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}