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A lawsuit alleging that Novell and Red Hat infringed on patents relating to Linux has been thrown out by a Texas jury.
Novell and Red Hat on Friday said that the lawsuit, filed in October 2007 by IP Innovation LLC and Technology Licensing Corporation (TLC), was thrown out by the jury in the case, which was tried in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas.
The jury also declared the patents in question invalid.
Novell and Red Hat declared the jury decision a victory for the open-source community.
In the lawsuit, a copy of which can be read here, IP Innovation and TLC accused Novell and Red Hat of infringing on three patents.
They include U.S. Patent No. 5,072,412, entitled “User Interface With Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects;” Patent No. 5,533,183, entitled “User Interface With Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects;” and Patent No. 5,394,521, entitled “User Interface With Multiple Workspaces for Sharing Display System Objects.”
All three patents were developed at Xerox.
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