Атака патентных троллей на Github

Точнее, на rackspace за то, что хостят гитхаб.

pdf'ка с заявлением в суд.

Среди истцов не только патентный тролль (некая Personalweb Technologies LLC), но ещё каким-то образом L3 communication (крупный ISP).

Цитата:

Rackspace has infringed and continues to infringe the ’791 patent by its manufacture, use, sale, importation, and/or offer for sale of the following products and services within the PersonalWeb Patent Field: Rackspace Cloud Servers and GitHub Code Hosting Service. Rackspace further contributes to and induces others to manufacture, use, sell, import, and/or offer for sale these infringing products and services. Rackspace is liable for its infringement of the ’791 patent pursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 271.

Список патентов:

• 5,978,791 — “Data Processing System Using Substantially Unique Identifiers to Identify Data Items, Whereby Data Items Have the Same Identifiers
• 6,415,280 — Identifying and Requesting Data in Network Using Identifiers Which Are Based On Contents of Data
• 6,928,442 — Enforcement and Policing of Licensed Content Using Content-based Identifiers
• 7,802,310 — Controlling Access to Data in a Data Processing System
• 7,945,539 — Distributing and Accessing Data in a Data Processing System.
• 7,945,544 — Similarity-Based Access Control of Data in a Data Processing System
• 7,949,662 — De-duplication of Data in a Data Processing System.
• 8,001,096 — Computer File System Using Content- Dependent File Identifiers.
• 8,099,420 — Accessing Data in a Data Processing System