Juju patents

[Mark Shuttleworth]

On 11/13/2017 09:34 AM, Merlijn Sebrechts wrote:
> Just got a scholar alert for three patents that seem to be describing
> Juju/TOSCA.
>
> - "TOPOLOGY BASED MANAGEMENT WITH STAGE AND VERSION
> POLICIES": http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0302532.html
> - "TOPOLOGY BASED MANAGEMENT WITH COMPLIANCE
> POLICIES": http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0302531.html
> - TOPOLOGY BASED MANAGEMENT OF SECOND DAY OPERATIONS":
> http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2017/0302537.html
>
> These were filed in 2014 by HPE. Even with a grace period of one year,
> it's still more than a year after the first release of Juju and TOSCA.
> Is Canonical interested in fighting this?
>

Juju is covered by the Open Invention Network, so I wouldn't expect any
problems from HPE in this regard. If it's straightforward to notify the
patent office of prior art, then I'd be happy to facilitate that.

Mark