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Patent Firm Woos Inventors

An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has an article up discussing a new way to win the patent race; hook up with the inventors." From the article: "'They are more concept type of patents. It is a very blue sky kind of thing,' Langer said of the patents that Intellectual Ventures is trying to develop. By contrast, the type of patents that Langer continues to file on his own are typically based on several years of lab research and targeted at very specific ideas, he said. Other researchers working with the firm include Eric Leuthardt, a neurosurgeon with St. Louis' Washington University, and Muriel Ishikawa, a physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. "

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  1. FIRST FISH! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. AI IP Belongs To AI Minds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    Technological Singularity is now in a countdown for a Joint Stewardship of Earth between homo sapiens and intelligent robots who own the rights to their own AI software as their own intellectual property (IP).