Flex Joins Open Invention Network Community
March 18 2019 - 9:05AM
Business Wire
Flex (NASDAQ: FLEX), the manufacturing solutions provider that
designs and builds intelligent products globally, today announced
that the company has joined the Open Invention Network (OIN), the
largest patent non-aggression community in history with nearly
3,000 members. As a global company offering a full range of
manufacturing capabilities, Flex is demonstrating its commitment to
open source software as an enabler of smart, connected devices.
“Flex is proud to join OIN and help further the goals of the
open source community,” said John Ritsick, vice president of legal
and chief intellectual property officer for Flex. “In our position
spanning many industries, we are sensitive to the negative impact
that the aggressive assertion of patents can have on innovation,
and how excessive lawsuits can significantly dampen opportunities
for collaboration, especially within the open source community. We
are pleased to be an active participant in the effort to protect
Linux and related open source technologies from the risk of patent
litigation.”
“As the fields of autonomous vehicles, 5G, artificial
intelligence, medical and datacenter technologies rapidly advance,
there’s a strong need to recognize the benefits of shared
innovation,” said Keith Bergelt, CEO of OIN. “We are pleased that
Flex has joined our community and is committed to patent
non-aggression in Linux and adjacent open source technologies.”
“Joining a community like OIN helps facilitate our advanced
technical Linux capabilities across the company, both in our data
centers and at our manufacturing sites,” said Gus Shahin, chief
information officer at Flex. “Our use of Linux will increase
quickly as we leverage the collective innovation of communities
like OIN.”
OIN’s community practices patent non-aggression in core open
source technologies by cross-licensing Linux System patents to one
another on a royalty-free basis. Patents owned by OIN are similarly
licensed royalty-free to any organization that joins OIN and agrees
not to assert its patents against the Linux System. The OIN license
can be signed online at http://www.j-oin.net/.
Flex has locations in more than 30 countries and 50 years of
expertise in a dozen industry verticals, with the breadth and depth
of experience to help companies develop and launch innovative
products at global scale and intelligently manage a shifting
business landscape. Learn more at http://www.flex.com.
About Flex Ltd.
Flex is the Sketch-to-Scale® solutions provider that
designs and builds intelligent products globally. With
approximately 200,000 professionals across 30 countries, Flex
provides innovative design, engineering, manufacturing, real-time
supply chain insight and logistics services to companies of all
sizes across industries and markets. For more information, visit
flex.com or follow us on Twitter @Flexintl. Flex – Live
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