All Our Patent Are Belong To You

>>gkober+(OP)
Assuming that this search represents nearly all of them, that is approximately 133 patents:

Edit: Nice catch, peter_l_downs ... I didn't realize that the estimated search result of 6,430 would be off by such a large factor.

>>Arjuna+V1
This is not like IBM making some of its less important patents available to the community. This is huge.

How many times in the past has a private company opened up its core patents for everyone to use? There aren't that many precedences.

>>pdevr+e5
In 1956 AT&T opened all of it's patents to everyone without royalties to settle an antitrust suit, including the transistor.

>>tcas+Y8
Didn't know that! That turned out well. To the innovators go the spoils.

>>gdilla+ya
The opposite, actually. This is about giving the spoils to everyone who didn't invent the transistor.

>>sp332+6c
the spoils to everyone who innovated on the transistor.

>>gohrt+Re
That's what I meant. THose that generated the most value on the transistor, got the spoils - eg Fairchild, Intel, etc

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