Open Invention Network (OIN) is a company that acquires patents and licenses them royalty-free to its community members who, in turn, agree not to assert their own patents against Linux and Linux-related systems and applications. The company was incorporated on 31 October 2005. Based in Durham, NC, it was founded on November 10 by IBM, Novell, Philips, Red Hat, and Sony. NEC subsequently became a member. In December 2013, Google became a member. In July 2016, it was announced that Toyota became a member. On October 10, 2018, Erich Andersen announced that Microsoft joined as a licensee. Canonical and TomTom are associate members. Keith Bergelt is the chief executive of the company. Bergelt had previously served as President and CEO of Paradox Capital, LLC As of November, 2021 membership in the OIN stood at approximately 3,500 business licensees. More information...
According to PR-model, openinventionnetwork.com is ranked 426,504th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 7,923rd in Ukrainian Wikipedia.
The website is placed before tosterego.com and after languagerealm.com in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
