- Firepond
Firepond is a software and service company located in
Mankato , Minnesota.The company has taken the name Firepond because it helps organizations accumulate all of their product and pricing data in a central location (as in a
Fire pond ). Once the data is centralized, it can be rapidly updated and distributed as often as needed to employees who use the data for sales within the direct and indirect sales processes.In 2003, Firepond launched a patent licensing program related to natural language processing,cite news|url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_July_30/ai_106042577|title=Firepond Announces Patent Licensing Program|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=Business Wire|date=2003-07-30] but later sold that part of its businesscite news|url=http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2004/06/07/newscolumn1.html|title=Firepond Inc.'s Brightware unit acquired|accessdate=2008-02-18|publisher=Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal |date=2004-06-04|author=Mark Reilly] and the related patents to the patent holding company Plutus IP LLC.cite news|url=http://www.marketwatch.com/News/Story/Story.aspx?guid=%7BB2DF7E73-9882-49FD-A161-E5BDC9FC1F6A%7D&siteid=nbk&print=true&dist=printTop|title=Speculator of mundane patents casts a long shadow|accessdate=2008-02-15|publisher=MarketWatch|date=2007-09-07|author=John Letzing] . One of the patents has been listed by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation among the "ten most wanted patents" of theirPatent Busting Project .See also
*The EFF's Ten Most-wanted Patents
References
External links
* [http://www.firepond.com/ Corporate homepage]
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