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IBM Patents Making Money from Patents

Oct 24, 2007, 20:00 (3 Talkback[s])
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"Sometime computer maker and intellectual property clearing house IBM has threatened the fabric of space-time by attempting to patent profiting from patents.

"A filing at the US Patent Office, entitled 'system and method for extracting value from a portfolio of assets' stages a landgrab on the thoroughly original idea of letting other people use your ideas..."

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