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NASA Patents To Be Auctioned

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the free-pair-of-scissors-for-the-red-tape dept.

Presto Vivace writes to tell us that as a continuing push to commercialize NASA-funded technology a group of 25 NASA patents will be auctioned off this coming October. "The sale, which will include rights to signal processing, GPS for spacecraft and sensor technologies, is the first auction under a partnership announced earlier this month between Goddard's Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) and Ocean Tomo Federal Services LLC. Ocean Tomo provides a marketplace for intellectual property, which NASA wants to leverage in commercializing its technology."

2 of 224 comments (clear)

  1. I had the same reaction by Presto+Vivace · · Score: 4, Informative

    this is our property.

  2. Donations Link by mpapet · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mr. Malackowski's donation record: http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=60657&last=Malackowski&first=James

    Like the others, NASA should license the patent and collect revenues. Selling it outright is simply giving it away.

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    http://www.maxineudall.com/2010/02/should-economists-be-sued-for-malpractice.html