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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."

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  1. Re:Great, we get to pay for them again! by countvlad · · Score: 0, Troll

    Then don't buy the fucking products. It's not NASA's job to take patents and turn them into business opportunities for itself. FFS, I expect a level of stupidity on /., but this the shit on here today is exceptional. This is nothing but a good thing. NASA gets money back. Industry gets stuff to make new products/services from, which creates jobs and possibly new peripheral technology...how is this anything than a bad thing? Is NASA supposed to commercialize it's patents and sell you shit for cheap? Were you fucking born yesterday? Some people here need to grow the fuck up and realize shit isn't free.