The following is not meant to be legal advice.
According to Mark Webbink, Deputy General Counsel at Red Hat, the 10 largest software patent holders in the
In the beginning, software patents were not important to the development of the
Patents have been made popular by companies such as IBM who build software and hold patents, and companies like Acacia who go out and buy patents in order to hold them for income. Companies that build patents are less likely to litigate because of counterclaims. Counterclaims are a defendant’s own patent portfolio used to attack back at a plaintiff.
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