https://blogs.opentext.com/opentext-comments-on-ibms-meritless-claim-against-micro-focus/
While the timing of IBM’s lawsuit was very curious (and transparent, in our view, as an act by a threatened competitor trying to disrupt OpenText), it did not impede OpenText’s acquisition of Micro Focus, nor will it slow down in the slightest our innovation.
To provide some further technical overview to the meritless IBM claim, it essentially pertains to IBM’s CICS TS computer program and an output file IBM calls a WSBIND file (which governs the way data is handled when an IBM CICS Web Services call is made).
Simply put, the use by a Micro Focus customer of WSBIND files that were created on the IBM mainframe (and that are required as per IBM requirements for deployment of data to and from the mainframe), do not infringe against IBM.
To continue the analogy, IBM cannot seriously claim that your customer data created on an IBM mainframe is owned by IBM. Such a claim would not be credible.