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| DATE | 2017-02-08 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [Hangout-NYLXS] Microsofts new stratergy to beat linux
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Microsoft Azure now offers patent troll IP protection
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Microsoft Azure now offers patent troll IP protection
Martin Anderson Wed 8 Feb 2017 4.47pm
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Microsoft Azure will now offer customers protection against patent
trolling, via Redmond’s considerable collection of 10,000 legal patents.
The practice of patent trolling has become an industry hazard for
startups in the last fifteen years, with companies forming solely for
the purpose of exploiting obscure or difficult-to-research patents which
may overlap with the IP of startups.
As of today, Azure is offering ‘uncapped indemnification coverage’,
including coverage against open-source implementations of entities such
as Hadoop, which forms the basis of Azure’s HD Insight product.
According to the release, Microsoft will make available to Azure clients
10,000 patents that it owns with a view towards warding off patent
lawsuits for software which runs on Azure. It is also promising that
future transfer patents will never result in action against clients who
take advantage of the scheme.
Microsoft quotes a report from Boston consulting group which estimates a
22% rise in IP lawsuits relating to cloud products over the last five
years in the U.S. alone. It also observes that non-practicing entities
have increased their spending on cloud patents by 35% over the same
period of time.
The facility is intended primarily to help technology exponents who may
have relevant patent cover in their own field of work (such as
autonomous vehicles) but who could become vulnerable by extending their
reach into cloud and app-based products.
Microsoft corporate vice president Julia White commented in an
interview: “They haven’t had years to build up that patent portfolio,”
and continued, “Cloud innovation is far too important to be stifled by
lawsuits.”
Compliance website Inside Counsel suggested in 2014 that the
labyrinthine nursery of academic and research patents which lead to
cloud innovations has made it easier for trolling companies to pick up
easy patent properties from cash-strapped universities with a view to
future exploitation, and that the widespread diffusion of popular
high-level open-source projects such as OpenStack have left enough
potential actionable IP vulnerabilities to make speculative litigation
worthwhile as a new industry standard.
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