A company called Intellectual Weapons wants to sell your vulnerabilities and the patches that fix them for the a lot of money, in order to do that they want to patent any vulnerability and patch combinations they get their hands on, so that anyone using that vulnerability or patch will be required to pay them money.

This sounds like a spinoff from the idea behind iDEFENSE.

But sounds a lot worse, as they plan on suing anyone patching their system without paying them royalties. I can’t emphasize how bad this sounds, but it reminds me of bad ideas, for example BlueSecurity’s approach to fighting spam with an attack on the spammers.