GOP is selling off NASA! (xposted in GD)

[ColbertWatcher]

GCN Home > 09/15/08 web stories
NASA patents to be auctioned
Auction is part of program to help commercialize NASA-funded technology
By William Jackson

A suite of 25 patents for technology developed at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center will be put up for sale at a live intellectual property auction being held in October by Ocean Tomo Auctions LLC in Chicago.

The sale, which will include rights to signal processing, GPS for spacecraft and sensor technologies, is the first auction under a partnership announced earlier this month between Goddard’s Innovative Partnerships Program (IPP) and Ocean Tomo Federal Services LLC. Ocean Tomo provides a marketplace for intellectual property, which NASA wants to leverage in commercializing its technology.

“A major component of NASA Goddard’s Innovative Partnerships Program’s mission is to transfer NASA technology to the commercial marketplace, said IPP program office chief Nona Cheeks.

Creating a market for patented technology funded by NASA benefits both the government and the commercial sector that will take advantage of it.

--Government Computer News

Imagine that. The GOP is gutting the government to benefit the commercial sector.

The auction is set for October 29th and 30th (http://www.oceantomo.com/auctions.html). Gee, anyone want to guess if Blackwater or Halliburton will be bidding on anything?

[whistle]

1. What about Saudi Arabia, they will be there

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Oh, yes, How can I forget! Now, I'm really pissed! (ADDED PIC)

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/254/story/52488.html

[gordianot]

3. You can bet the Goverment workers who participated and worked on pojects will never see a cent.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. No doubt. The "agency" owns the patent. n/t

[Johonny]

12. I don't think your right

I imagine they get between 2-10 % of the royalties. That's pretty standard. And as long as they don't break ITAR rules I believe there is nothing new or interesting about this thread.

[Massacure]

5. NASA should make those patents open-source

After all, they those discoveries were made with tax-payer money.

[givemebackmycountry]

6. Hey! I got an idea!

Let's sell these patents to Pakistan.
Right?
We sold them a bunch of other shit, they are our "friends" and we can trust them right?

What could possibly go wrong?

We are one extra-stupid country when Republicans are in charge.

[dbonds]

7. I thought NASA inventions we to be given to business.

That was part of the NASA concept to roll the technology out.

[aquart]

8. Unfuckingbelievable.

In an alternate reality these would be called state secrets.

[ColbertWatcher]

11. No kidding. That or public property. n/t

[Duppers]

9. Ok, there's nothing new about this

NASA TU has been selling patents for many yrs.

And the researchers do see a minute portion/percentage of the profits. Each contract/sale is negotiated differently, usually.

My hubby gets 5% of anything over $100,000, which he has to share with the others on the patents.

[ColbertWatcher]

10. I don't trust this administration doing it.

Who knows what they'll sell and who'll they'll sell it to.

[Ganja Ninja]

13. The term is looting. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

15. It may be common, but I don't trust the GOP; they would loot the place. n/t

[Enthusiast]

14. If Clinton did this the GOP

would frame it as selling secret nuclear technology to the Chinese. Think about it.

[ColbertWatcher]

16. Which is probably what the GOP are planning on doing right now. n/t