[clamav-users] Patent troll attacks AV vendors

[Marc]

Just move the legal entity to Europe, and end of story with such claims.

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> Is Clam affected by this?
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> <https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/12/22985527/webroot-opentext-patent-troll-
> lawsuit-malware-detection-endpoint-security>
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> > In early March, cybersecurity firm Webroot and its parent company
> > OpenText launched a series of patent litigation containing some
> > eye-opening claims. Filed March 4th in the famously patentholder-friendly
> > Western District of Texas court, the four lawsuits claim that techniques
> > fundamental to modern malware detection are based on patented technology
> > — and that the company's competitors are infringing on intellectual
> > property rights with their implementation of network security software.
> >
> > The defendants named in the suits are a who's who of security
> > companies: CrowdStrike, Kaspersky, Sophos, and Trend Micro are all named.
> > According to OpenText, the companies are using patented technology in
> > their anti-malware applications, specifically in the endpoint security
> > systems that protect specific devices on a network. It's a sweeping
> > lawsuit that puts much of the security industry in immediate danger. And,
> > for critics, it's a bitter reminder of how much damage a patent troll
> > can still do.
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> > Though the lawsuit is being brought in 2022, a judgment would hinge in
> > part on whether the techniques described in the patent were widely known
> > at the time that the patent application was filed. One of the patents at
> > the heart of the suit — US Patent No. 8,418,250, referred to as "the
> > '250 patent" in the lawsuit — was granted in the United States in
> > 2013 but first issued by the British patent office in 2005. Another, US
> > Patent No. 8,726,389 or the '389 patent, was also issued in the UK in
> > 2005 and granted in the US in 2014.
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