NetApp/ZFS threats.

[Martin Matuska]

Here is a link to the ZFS lawsuit information:
http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/zfs/

Under "More Information" you find links to many relevant legal documents.

The patent 5,819,292 (dealing with "copy on write") and 5,761,662
("Personalized retrieval using user-defined profile") have been already
rejected by final action of the USPTO (United States Patent and
Trademark Office).

Personalized retrieval using user-defined profile:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5761662.html
http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/zfs/docs/US5761662FinalOfficeAction3-2009.pdf
Rejected claims: 1,4-8,11-17,20-32 (rejected as not patentable, these
claims cannot be legally enforced)

Copy-on-write:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5819292.html
http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/zfs/docs/US5819292FinalOfficeActionJun2009.pdf
Rejected claims: 4,8,11-15,20,23,24 (rejected as not patentable, these
claims cannot be legally enforced)
Confirmed claims: 1, 21, 22 (these claims can be sued and enforced)

Snapshots (7,174,352):
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/7174352.html
http://www.sun.com/lawsuit/zfs/docs/US7174352OfficeAction2-2009.pdf

Clones (6,857,001):
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6857001.html


Dňa 22. 7. 2010 20:09, Pawel Jakub Dawidek  wrote / napísal(a):
> There was discussion on zfs-discuss at opensolaris mailing list about this.
> Not sure if there was anything interesting, but:
>
> 	http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/zfs-discuss/2010-July/042931.html
>