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OIN? grants patent license to licensee
– All OIN patents and applications for all products
Licensee grants patent license to OIN?
– All licensee patents and applications for the Linux System
Licensee grants license to other current and future licensees
– All licensee patents and applications for the Linux System
– All OIN patents and applications for all products
Licensee grants patent license to OIN?
– All licensee patents and applications for the Linux System
Licensee grants license to other current and future licensees
– All licensee patents and applications for the Linux System
Therefore, HTC grants license to other current and future (OIN) licensees: All licensee patents (all HTCs patents) and applications for the Linux System
Therefore, any of the 280 companies who are members of the OIN have just been granted a license from HTC for all patents held by HTC which are applicable to Linux.
This cross-licensing is why OIN is described as a "network". The way that the "may not sue other OIN compnies" bit works is that all of the OIN companies license each other. They all have licenses for each others patents.
Here are the 280 companies:
Any company amongst this list is licensed to use its own patents (of course) and also all of the patents applicable to Linux from the other 279 companies.
This amounts to a lot of patents, BTW.
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