An interesting thing about patents in the US is that this company could also sue any organization using the infringing software (eg, a Linux distro that uses GN

An interesting thing about patents in the US is that this company could also sue any organization using the infringing software (eg, a Linux distro that uses GNOME, and it's customers). Red Hat offers to fight and protect end-users of their software that might get caught up in a patent fight like this one: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source-assurance-faq https://www.redhat.com/en/about/open-source-assurance-faq