Summary: NASA is doing its controversial patents feast again

A FEW years ago we wrote about NASA doing something very unjust by potentially feeding patent trolls through an auction. NASA did not learn any lessons from the backlash. According to this article from IDG, NASA is doing it again:

Originally developed for control of satellite systems and other mission specific needs, these patent lots have a number of potential applications in software development, robotics, telecommunications, utilities, smart grids, wireless sensor networks, quantitative finance and cyber security.

Patent lots fall into three categories: automated software generation, autonomic computing architectures and autonomic management of environmental monitoring systems.

Does the public approve this poor use of public money? ⬆