Novell plays the software patents game

Summary: The traitor Novell continues to be granted more patents, which we already know get funnelled to enemies of Linux through shells like CPTN

THE mobile market is further strangled with yet another patent.

According to this, OTI gets a patent monopoly on the following function:

OTI Receives US Patent for Contactless Smart SIM

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This latest patent, entitled "Contactless Smart SIM", was issued on January 3, 2012, and covers the capabilities necessary to turn existing mobile handsets into Contactless / NFC capable devices through the incorporation of a SIM card and a specifically designed antenna, all while keeping the phone and operating system fully agnostic.

There are also new Novell patents, granted after the company got bought. Here is one:

Information card overlay, patent No. 8,083,135, invented by Andrew A. Hodgkinson of Pleasant Grove, and James M. Norman of Pleasant Grove, assigned to Novell, Inc. of Provo.

Novell is also mentioned in new patent roundups such as [1, 2, 3, 4] (January 4^th to 12^th, behind paywall). The Utah press writes this:

Identity-based network mapping, patent No. 8,091,119, invented by Jeremy Ray Brown of Orem, and Lloyd Leon Burch of Payson, assigned to Novell Inc. of Provo.

So Novell continues to pile these up. As we know, Microsoft and Apple got patents from Novell, so what Novell is doing it is dangerous. ⬆