882 Novell patents: Apple, EMC and Oracle has seen
According to the German Bundeskartellamt federal antitrust authorities in the December 9 to documents revealed by the acquisition of Novell 882 patents CPTN Holdings LLC not only the company behind Microsoft, including Apple (Apple), EMC, and Oracle ( Oracle).
November this year, Attachmate announced 2.2 billion U.S. dollars to buy Novell, Novell will also be 882 while intellectual property (IP) to 4.5 billion cash sale to Microsoft-owned CPTN holding company. The two sides did not disclose the contents of the patent, but outside the hold of considerable concern to Novell's open source-related patents is to fall into Microsoft's hands. Novell quickly outside this clarification , still has Unix copyright.
Now that 882 patents have on the new information appears. Specially written software patent issue Florian Mueller blog writer published an article that the German Bundeskartellamt site information, CPTN fact is that the four companies as "patent" cause co-founded the company.
Attachmate announced that Novell, when Florian Mueller to the CPTN This new company is very curious, and guess who is working with Microsoft in the end. But it now seems clear that Microsoft partners are not pushovers, but some super-heavyweight technology companies.
He said that while the contents of the patent is still unknown, but thanks to the German antitrust authorities, so that we can know that behind these companies, it would be great progress. "Clearly, these manufacturers are considered, these patents are very valuable to them."
Florian Mueller pointed out that in the end he could not predict these manufacturers will take these patents do, but act in the past these companies have track to be found