I mentinoned in a comment in an earlier story about an initiative from a non-profit to fight against the flaws of the current patent system which I think might be a good idea, although it clearly lacks support: http://www.ondatechnology.org/protection-fund.html
their idea is to gather a fund to help individuals register patents for free usage. then patent trolls can't do it.
I've been following with particular attention this project because of my native disgust towards the way patents and especially software patents block us from development.
They want to help you register your IP so patent trolls can't. But you are required to allow free licensing for open projects. Your IP is added to a database or some sort of a collection of easily licensable projects that are licensed freely to open projects and negotiable to closed projects.
I've recently come across an interesting initiative against patent trolls, the onda protection fund: http://www.ondatechnology.org/protection-fund.html
I've read the info and it seems that it could thrive if people pay attention to it
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I mentinoned in a comment in an earlier story about an initiative from a non-profit to fight against the flaws of the current patent system which I think might be a good idea, although it clearly lacks support: http://www.ondatechnology.org/protection-fund.html their idea is to gather a fund to help individuals register patents for free usage. then patent trolls can't do it. I've been following with particular attention this project because of my native disgust towards the way patents and especially software patents block us from development.
They want to help you register your IP so patent trolls can't. But you are required to allow free licensing for open projects. Your IP is added to a database or some sort of a collection of easily licensable projects that are licensed freely to open projects and negotiable to closed projects.
I've recently come across an interesting initiative against patent trolls, the onda protection fund: http://www.ondatechnology.org/protection-fund.html I've read the info and it seems that it could thrive if people pay attention to it