Google launched the Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge initiative - no lawsuits against the Open Source community

The search giant today in the Google blog Open Source announced that from now on it will adhere to the OPN initiative (Open Patent Non-Assertion Pledge), which is as follows - the company will not file lawsuits against users, developers or distributors using the patented the development of the company until it itself is prosecuted.

Although Google had previously participated in similar projects (such as the Open Invention Network ), the company decided to come up with OPN on its own, and hopes to be joined by other market participants using Open Source.

Probably, Google intends to transfer its projects to the new status gradually. At the moment, the first ten patents related to the MapReduce technology have come under OPN; In the future, this portfolio will be updated and updated with new developments.

Google declares a number of OPN principles, the most significant of which are two:

• The principle of “not filing lawsuits” will be in effect until counterclaim is filed against the company itself.
• The project’s OPN status will remain “forever,” even if Google suddenly decides to transfer the patent to another owner.

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