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It seems like PersonalWeb is trying to develop software...

http://www.personalweb.com/

Interesting that their CEO was involved early on in P2P.



Does it, though?

First red flag for me is that they are based in "East Texas": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...

On their "How we do it" page, they mention some Natural Language Processing software that they're developing, but primarily highlight their "valuable" patent portfolio.


Any company that lists that they own "some really amazing patents" in bold on their home page can't possibly be real.


But the inventors don't work for them and they didn't file these patents nor were they assignees. They acquired the patents from someone else for a price.




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