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NASA To Auction Automated Code Generation Patents

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the that-doesn't-seem-right dept.

coondoggie writes "NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center said it is set to auction an exclusive license to five patents it holds for automated software development on November 11, 2010. NASA said the technology was originally developed to handle coding of control code for spacecraft swarms, but it is applicable to any commercial application where rule-based systems development is used."

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  1. Prior Art hits me again by russlar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blast! There goes my plan to file a patent for "Method for auctioning patents".

    Curse you, Prior Art!

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    Anybody want my mod points?
    1. Re:Prior Art hits me again by nullifi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Don't give up just yet, maybe the patent office won't remember the prior art.

  2. Re:Doh! Missed a chance at a patent. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm sure we were not the first, nor as sophisticated, but in 1994 we wrote a program to write programs.

    Yo dawg!