>> Out of curiosity has anyone ever heard of trolls patenting open source >> technologies after the fact? > >The prior art stipulations pretty much kills that off, unless they make a >genuine improvement/change to it to not qualify under that, then they would >be well within patent law to apply for a patent.
The patent office has never been very good at examining software patents, and I have made a lot of money helping companies document the prior art not cited in patents that are being asserted against them. R's, John _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"