Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
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Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#2How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#3The interesting thing here is that Twitter hasn't even infringed by design. The celebrity culture is more a matter of who happened to find the service useful. If you can be sued for something you didn't even implement but is an artefact of how your platform is utilised by users, well, there's a problem.
What's next, suing Apple because consumers can stick an iPad to their fridge therefore infringing on 'System and method for affixing a touchscreen to a refrigeration device'?
Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#4How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
Probably not until the Government gets served papers for something they are doing that infringes on a random patent some troll is holding.
At this point most companies consider it cost of doing business; changing it could possibly weaken or remove the leverage they have with their patent warchest.
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#5The patent in question: http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=e-ULAAAAEBAJ
A cursory browse will show that this is as expected: a wide-ranging patent that shouldn't have been granted in its submitted state.
Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#6How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
just one more and then they'll do something about it
Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#7The interesting thing here is that Twitter hasn't even infringed by design. The celebrity culture is more a matter of who happened to find the service useful. If you can be sued for something you didn't even implement but is an artefact of how your platform is utilised by users, well, there's a problem. What's next, suing Apple because consumers can stick an iPad to their fridge therefore infringing on 'System and me…
While they may not have designed the system specifically for it, they've certainly done their best to capitalise on it, including (for example) advertisments such as the one in TC's image, which I imagine is what the patent troll will use to justify the claim.
Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#8How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
Probably not until the Government gets served papers for something they are doing that infringes on a random patent some troll is holding. At this point most companies consider it cost of doing business; changing it could possibly weaken or remove the leverage they have with their patent warchest.
Even if that occurs, the US government can make use of a patent without paying fees under something akin to eminent domain laws.
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#9Reading the actual patent (http://www.google.com/patents?id=e-ULAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a... ), seems dubious (well, it's dubious full stop..)
My brief reading of it seems to me that the patent is quite specific about categorising celebs into their "fields", it also talks about biographical details as a key part.
I think they are trying to force their patent to fit Twitters model, and it doesn't really fit.
Re: Twitter Gets Sued For Letting Famous People Interact Online
#10How many of these examples do we need to see before something is done with the US patent system?
What we need is a compilation of examples where a software patent hindered or threatened to hinder innovation.