patent fun part deux

[dave <dave () immunitysec com>]

People are missing why it's not searchable by Microsoft: because then 
they can claim that they were first with some certainty. If they can't 
search the database, then they can submit patents all day long, but no 
patent lawyer on earth can give them any sense of sureity when they 
write the patent that it isn't trivially overturnable by something in 
the database. This is also why it's searchable by the EFF, because they 
then become the big boy on the block. Alternatively you could give it 
keyword and encrypted blob, and have the EFF come ask you when they get 
a patent lawsuit with your keywords, although that weakens the weapon. 
Of course, you could do both and give them as much as you feel like 
giving them.

People seem to feel that the public isn't willing to give up ideas. But 
they are. Linux is full of such ideas. If you read the slashdot thread 
today on Microsoft's taskbar patent there are two examples of people who 
would have had prior art, but had no such database to submit to.

Does anyone know anyone in the EFF who would be interested in such an 
idea? (J. Granick, perhaps?)

I'd fund it myself if they'd run it for us.

-dave


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