IBM Gives IP Access To Standards
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on July 12, 2007 at 2:00:11 PM
IBM has pledged to give universal access to standards IP that it has. This means people can use their IP for these standards without fear of infringement.
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Under a pledge issued by the company Wednesday, IBM is granting universal and perpetual access to intellectual property that might be necessary to implement standards designed to make software interoperable. IBM will not assert any patent rights to its technologies featured in these standards. The company believes its move in this space is the largest of its kind. "These are what I could call the core infrastructure standards that people now use around such things as SOA," said Bob Sutor, IBM vice president of open source and standards. Web 2.0 applications also could be developed, for example. The company seeks to spur development of software that leverages these standards.