Wednesday 12 January 2005 — This is close to 20 years old. Be careful.
IBM is releasing 500 patents for use without payment in open source products. Here’s the list of all 500 patents.
I don’t know what this means from a business point of view. As an engineer, I scan down the list of patents and get the same glazed-eye look as anyone else. They all sound very similar, and all sound like either completely fundamental principles or trivial crap, like most patent titles do. Also of interest to me is that none of the three patents that I authored in the IBM portfolio are in the list:
- 6,408,360: Cache override control in an apparatus for caching dynamic content.
- 6,351,767: Method and system for automatically caching dynamic content based on a cacheability determination.
- 5,691,708: Text abstraction method and apparatus.
Does this mean my patents are worthless? Or irrelevant? Or too valuable to disclaim? Maybe they just don’t have much to do with the hotspots of open source. Who knows?
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Blech.
It provides free patent searching, free PDF downloading, allows annoting documents and sharing them, and free alerts for new documents.
If you have a spot, a link to let your users know abou the site would be great.
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