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Securing Open Source Patent Protection — Past, Present & Future. Funded by Google, IBM/Red Hat, NEC, Philips, Sony, SUSE & Toyota, OIN membership is free.
We provide an opportunity for all who benefit from Open Source to contribute to shielding the Open Source community from patent threats & enabling Open Source to flourish. Open Invention Network (OIN) — the largest patent non-aggression community in history & the largest free defensive patent pool with nearly 4,000 worldwide members — believes Open Source collaboration fosters faster innovation, reshapes human experiences, and creates unimagined technologies that improve our lives. In 2005, our founders shared this vision & created what has become a free, global Open Source community where member companies — of all sizes from more than 150 countries and 20+ industries — gain royalty-free access to the Linux System patents of a community that owns over 2.7 million global patents and applications in aggregate. Among many other benefits, members also receive support to protect their products & services from patent aggressors, reduce their patent risks & mitigate potential litigation. To join today, visit https://openinventionnetwork.com/joining-oin/join-now/
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09/23/2026
OIN member IBM/RedHat commit $5 billion (USD) to Open Source security with Project Lightwell. Partners & early adopters include industry tech giants & OIN members AWS, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase, Microsoft, Royal Bank of Canada & Wells Fargo.
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09/21/2026
AI coding agents are moving from assistants to autonomous engineering teams as evidenced by Amazon’s new Kiro Crew — an Open Source workspace designed so agents can continue working asynchronously.
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09/18/2026
Are you headed to India FOSS 2026, September 26-27th in Bengaluru? Keep an eye out for Biju K. Nair and Venkatesh Hariharan, our Licensing Executive in India, who will be there! Registration is still open!
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09/17/2026
OIN Connect 2026 brings together some of the world's foremost leaders in Intellectual Property and Open Source — October 19 in San Jose, CA — for a day of candid conversations, new connections and like-minded community.
The agenda is set. Speakers are confirmed. Reserve your seat at the table.
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The event is co-located with the Linux Foundation Legal Summit, which takes place Oct. 20-21.
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09/10/2026
Hugging Face's mid-2026 open ecosystem report reveals massive growth to nearly 3 million public model repositories. OIN members Alibaba, Ant Group, Google, IBM & Tencent play an important role.
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09/09/2026
Tier IV — a pioneer in SDV technology, developer of Autoware & believer that expanding global autonomous driving deployment requires an ecosystem built on Open Source Software (OSS) — joins OIN 2.0 to support patent non-aggression & proactively clear IP patent risk. Autoware is built on Linux and the Robot Operating System (ROS), both covered by OIN's Linux System for members!
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09/08/2026
Clear Patent Risk better with our newly-released Open Source script on GitHub that compares the output of package managers (rpm, deb, pip) to a CSV file of the Linux System. This comparison helps find packages that our exclusive Linux System covers and if not covered, you can nominate them to be considered for the next update to help you clear patent risk for your products.
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09/04/2026
When it comes to Open Source, what’s the careful balance between protecting patents & ensuring continued collaboration? Shane Coughlan shares answers in this short video vignette.
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09/03/2026
IS OIN 2.0 PART OF YOUR OPEN SOURCE STRATEGY?
As Open Source adoption grows, so does the need for scalable patent protection. OIN 2.0 helps reduce IP risk, strengthen ecosystem collaboration & support long-term innovation. And … affordable participation tiers are based on your business revenue.
Make OIN 2.0 part of your strategy today.
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09/02/2026
IP leaders at Disney are finding smart, incremental ways of adding revenue & meeting consumers where they are. Learn more about Disney’s new partnership with TikTok. It might surprise you to learn that both media & entertainment companies are long-time members of OIN’s patent non-aggression community.
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