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, but later sold that part of its business and the related patents to the patent holding company Plutus IP LLC.. One of the patents has been listed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation among the "ten most wanted patents" of their Patent Busting Project.

See also

• The EFF's Ten Most-wanted Patents

References

External links

• Corporate homepage