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In a previous discussion someone suggested forming a reverse patent troll organization that accepted donations of patents from open source developers and whoeve
by tlrobinson 15y ago
In a previous discussion someone suggested forming a reverse patent troll organization that accepted donations of patents from open source developers and whoever, and used them to counter sue patents trolls. The obvious problems are it's expensive to file for patents and lawsuits, and it doesn't protect against "pure" trolls.
Another idea: a simple community that accepts and publishes every random software idea anyone ever comes up with in order to establish prior art.
Perhaps include mechanisms to discover patent applications linked to relevant keywords, etc.
What would it take to prove the date of submissibon to the system? Is there some type of digital notary that we could send a daily batch of documents?
- GrandMasterBirt 15y agoSimpler: Mathematical formulas can't be patented. Haskel is a lambda calculus implementation. Therefore implementing ANYTHING in haskel will mean that it is just a mathematical formula (have a program to transform it so we can put it to court) and therefore as long as anything is implemented in haskel at least once it proves that that something is just a unpatentable mathematical formula. If the laws won't change to accommodate us, we should pull out the guns (metaphorical).
- carussell 15y agohttps://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal:Prior_Art https://wiki.mozilla.org/Legal:Prior_Art