Education
Brigham Young University.
Brigham Young University.
He currently works as Vice President and Associate General Counsel at Rackspace. Since 2012, Lindberg has been a director and Chairman of the Board of the Python Software Foundation, and since 2013, a director of the OpenStack Foundation. In 2014, Lindberg was the first chair of the Docker Governance Advisory Board.
Before his current position, Lindberg worked for the international corporate law firm Haynes and Boone and as an engineer for the web hosting company Verio.
Lindberg has been recognized by the American Bar Association Journal as "One of the Nation"s 12 Techiest Attorneys."
Lindberg is notable for his opposition to patent trolls. Under Lindberg, Rackspace has become known for its extremely aggressive stance against patent trolls and its efforts to promote patent litigation reform, focusing on the Innovation Acting in the United States. House of Representatives and the PATENT Acting, its companion in the United States. Senate.
Lindberg has appeared with Senators Chuck Schumer and John Cornyn and in videos for the Internet Association in support of the legislation. Rackspace Hosting, Incorporated. v.
Rotatable Technologies Limited Liability Company
In 2013-2014, Lindberg headed Rackspace"s efforts against Rotable Technologies, Limited Liability Company, a non-practicing entity that was accusing companies of infringing patent United States. 6,326,978 for using screen-rotation capabilities in apps running on the iOS and Android mobile operating systems
Rackspace rejected an immediate offer to settle the patent infringement case for $75,000 and instead instituted an inter partes review, leading to the patent being declared invalid. At the time of the decision, Rotatable had pending suits against 31 other companies. Lindberg is also known for his work on copyright and open source law.
He is the author of Intellectual Property and Open Source, a well-reviewed book that has been used as a textbook for teaching the concepts of intellectual property and open source licensing.
In 2013, Lindberg testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the importance of open source models in copyright.