[News] Software Patent Abuser Trend Micro(soft) Takes Cover

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Trend Micro: Barracuda Suit Not About Open Source

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| Trend Micro may have received more than it bargained for in its software
| patent dispute with rival Barracuda Networks. In the past few months
| Barracuda's cause has been taken up by free software advocates, who see Trend
| Micro's patent claims as a threat to the open-source ClamAV antivirus
| project.
|
| [...]
|
| Chen: In the patent, we are not claiming that we invented the antivirus
| scanner. We are not claiming that we invented the proxy server. But the
| concept of using these two together so that you can stop the virus during the
| transition is new. Like I said, I'm not a patent specialist, but at that time
| it was awarded as a patent. And then later on even IBM themselves exchanged
| their patent with us, and so there was some recognition of that as a valid
| patent. And then later on it was litigated.
|
| Software patents are always very controversial. It's not about open source;
| it's about how you define the patent.
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[url]http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/147085/trend_micro_barracuda_suit_not_about_open_source.html[/url]

Trend Micro Says Their Patent Suit Isn't About Open Source

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| Eva Chen, CEO of Trend Micro, currently suing Barracuda over Trend's patent
| on an anti-virus scanning gateway, was interviewed in PC World. She
| says "It's not about Open Source", but she manages to sound rather short of a
| clue in this interview, and makes a poor case for this sort of patent being
| issued at all.
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[url]http://technocrat.net/d/2008/6/13/43461[/url]

Recent:

Barracuda CEO Dean Drako explains why his company is publically fighting Trend
Micro patent suit (video)

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| It's unusual for companies engaged in patent litigation to comment on how the
| fight is going. But Barracuda Networks CEO Dean Drako has openly sought FOSS
| community support for his company's defense again a Trend Micro lawsuit that,
| while filed against his company, is really about ClamAV. We've written about
| this before, as have others. In this video, however, we'll let Dean tell you
| in his own words what's going on -- and why.
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[url]http://www.linux.com/feature/135389?&depth=5&order=1&sortby=3&render=flat[/url]

Related:

Trend Micro patent claim provokes FOSS community, leads to boycott

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| Eben Moglen of the Software Freedom Law Center is aware of the case, and is
| considering a patent re-examination request or another intervention in the
| case.
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| Contacted by Linux.com, Barracuda's Drako acknowledged the array of reactions
| by saying, "We at Barracuda want to extend our thanks to the tremendous
| number of individuals who expressed support for our defending the use of
| ClamAV free and open source software, as well as to the community members
| that have submitted prior art."
|
| If Trend Micro hasn't already, it is about to find out that the case is about
| free software after all.
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[url]http://www.linux.com/feature/126851[/url]

Call for action: Boycott Trend Micro

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| Anti virus developer Trend Micro accused Barracuda Networks of patent
| infringement but what they really did was attacking the users of ClamAV free
| anti virus software with a bogus patent.
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[url]http://wiki.vrijschrift.org/Call_for_action%3A_Boycott_Trend_Micro[/url]
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