{"id":649431,"date":"2013-03-28T15:06:39","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T19:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=402027"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:06:39","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T19:06:39","slug":"google-vows-not-to-sue-over-patent-infringement-unless-first-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/649431","title":{"rendered":"Google vows not to sue over patent infringement \u2018unless first attacked\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/28\/google-patents-open-source-initiative-402027\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"476\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/08\/google-sign-301.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=476&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Patents Open-Source Initiative\" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) on Thursday announced a new open source initiative for dealing with patent infringement lawsuits. Duane Valz, the company&#8217;s senior patent counsel, said that moving forward <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google<\/a> won&#8217;t sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software utilizing its patents &#8220;unless first attacked.&#8221; The company hopes its Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge will serve as a model for the industry and encourage other patent holders to take similar approaches. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/28\/google-patents-open-source-initiative-402027\/?utm_source=more-link&#038;utm_medium=feed\" class=\"more-link\"><em>Continue reading&#8230;<\/em><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/YtTxJ8YJF6Y\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google (GOOG) on Thursday announced a new open source initiative for dealing with patent infringement lawsuits. Duane Valz, the company&#8217;s senior patent counsel, said that moving forward Google won&#8217;t sue any user, distributor or developer of open-source software utilizing its patents &#8220;unless first attacked.&#8221; The company hopes its Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge will serve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7439,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649431","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\/7439"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}