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Author:Dave Winer
Posted:6/12/2000; 8:12:32 AM
Topic:How do you know a vision when it hits you?
Msg #:17742 (In response to 17731)
Prev/Next:17741 / 17743

Thanks to Mike Weiner for sending this pointer:

http://www.ip.com/home.html

It's close but not quite there. They encourage people to patent the core of their new technology, and register non-patent-worthy ideas so that competitors can't route around.

If I were to participate in such a system, it would not give comfort to patent opportunists. To participate you'd have to completely swear-off patents.

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