Red Hat Faces Patent Infringement Suit

Submitted by srlinuxx on Thursday 29th of June 2006 09:53:27 AM Filed under

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Software company FireStar has filed suit against open source seller Red Hat, alleging patent infringement. The suit, filed in the Eastern District of Texas, asserts infringement of U.S. Patent No. 6,101,502 that is directed to a method of interfacing an object oriented software application with a relational database. Red Hat recently purched JBoss maker of the specific accused product Hibernate 3.0.

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