Interview: Dickel Sooriah, co-founder GroupCamp

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Interview: Dickel Sooriah, co-founder GroupCamp

November 07 2011
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At the end of September French software developer GroupCamp received a letter from Texas-based non-practising entity Lodsys accusing it of infringing its patents and inviting it to negotiate a licence. Now its founders have launched a website asking companies in the same situation to pool their knowledge and share prior art to defeat Lodsys’s patents. Managing IP spoke to Dickel Sooriah about GroupCamp’s unusual tactics

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