I recently learned about Article One Partners, a legal research firm that specializes in finding prior art to bust patents. They use crowdsourcing to look for articles, existing technologies, public presentations, etc. that invalidate patents, and offer sizable rewards ($5K and higher) for research that does so.
Most of the patents in question are hard technology, but some are software, and some may be a threat to Linux. One example is "INTERPRETER FOR COMPILED AND THEN CONVERTED APPLICATIONS". That sounds a lot like Perl 6 Parrot to me, and Pascal from a long time ago. So this organization is relevant to protecting Linux, and perhaps a way to make some money. I have more important things to do right now. Over the next year, killing two or three patents for sport, and earning $10K or so for the opportunity, might be a fun way to while away a week or two. Getting paid for reading and thinking and writing. http://www.articleonepartners.com Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
