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IBM Wants Patent On Finding Areas Lacking Patents

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the all-for-me-none-for-you dept.

theodp writes "It sounds like a goof — especially coming from a company that pledged to raise the bar on patent quality — but the USPTO last week disclosed that IBM is seeking a patent for Methodologies and Analytics Tools for Identifying White Space Opportunities in a Given Industry, which Big Blue explains allows one 'to maximize the value of its IP by investigating and identifying areas of relevant patent 'white space' in an industry, where white space is a term generally used to designate one or more technical fields in which little or no IP may exist,' and filling those voids with the creation of additional IP."

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  1. Irony by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    IBM created computers for concentration camp computations (CCC) to kill Jews - but now they are even out-Jewing that horrible kike John Stewart.

  2. What about brownspace? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    And by brownspace I mean anal sex. With a woman. Otherwise it's gay. Preferable a woman with a nice muscular build, flat chest, a deep voice, short hair, no makeup, and wearing work boots, denim pants, and a wife beater tshirt.

  3. Re:Too meta for me... by nimbius · · Score: 0, Troll

    i for one welcome our new super-patent overlords.

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  4. Re:Too meta for me... by ShieldW0lf · · Score: -1, Troll

    The joke was lame. The show was lame. It was an exercise in reusing old Western plots while leveraging the fact that computer generated special effects are cheaper than hiring staff and building and maintaining a set. The sort of crap people from Texas would enjoy. It's also the sort of wistful daydreaming that allows people to tolerate that which should not be tolerated.

    Oh, and I'm not a geek. Geeks bite the heads off chickens at the circus.

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