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by jamesdullaghan 4404 days ago
Does anyone care to explain to me why there is no patent service that takes care of this process for open projects for protection of said projects? A patent would be granted under an open entity, but never used, unless a company used the patent for closed source. It seems that this could be a great way to fund open source projects. Reverse patent trolling.
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There's http://www.openinventionnetwork.com/. There used to be http://www.linuxdefenders.org/ but it's not resolving for me.