if some politician would get rid of "business process patents", we would be 90% of the way there.
Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”
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#32"I also acknowledge that a $20 fee may apply."
Are you shitting me?
Re: Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”
#33if some politician would get rid of "business process patents", we would be 90% of the way there.
I was under the impression that those already didn't qualify for patents. At least, this is what my friend told me years ago when he was either in or had recently graduated from law school at UT.
Is that not the case?
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#34The patent system is like a bug in a software that all your clients rely upon and will never let you fix. I expect peace in the middle east to happen before the patent system gets scrapped.
I wouldn't be so pessimistic. I've seen more and more attention to this in mainstream discussions. Some things just take a little longer to build momentum...
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#35Maybe someone here can patent the act of making trivial, over-reaching patents and put a stop to all this?
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#36I have JUST patented announcing the patent of announcing a domain name registration on a social website... You all owe me £1m each ... (I also patented talking about it).
Genius, however, I had already patented getting a patent on patenting the announcing of a domain name registration on a social website.
times infinity...
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#37This is just ridiculous. Where does it stop?
And after reading articles like these - http://www.law.com/corporatecounsel/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202... - makes one feel the legal system is aware how outdated and broken it is.
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#38For what it's worth, this doesn't happen in a vacuum. If you want to read the arguments, enter the patent number 8276057 at this website:
http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair
Look under the heading "file wrapper" for all the communication. In particular, read:
CTNF Non-Final Rejection
REM Applicant Arguments/Remarks Made in an Amendment
NPL Non Patent Literature
NOA Notice of Allowance and Fees Due (PTOL-85)
I'm not bored enough to read the whole thing, but the claims seem to have been some constrained on very technical points.
Please note: this patent is completely bogus, and I am not defending it. I am pointing this out because I think it is critically important for people to understand how the process works. Otherwise all this hand-wringing is for naught (and those who don't learn from history, etc...)
A suggestion for an enterprising web designer who happens to also be a bored 2L: make a website to semi-automate collation of prior art challenges. Court is not the only way to challege a patent. Patents can be challenged by 3rd parties through an "ex-parte re-examination request". One of the big limitations to this is the cost of the legal process and prior-art search/summation. I'm dreaming of a website that would allow crowd-sourcing to get 95% of the way to a ready-to-file submission, which could then be vetted and finalized by pro-bono lawyers, students in legal clinic, etc.
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#39The patent's claims are slightly more specific than the title would suggest, but are still absurdly broad. The patent appears to cover announcing, after a delay, a domain name registration on a social website using oauth.
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#40I could expect this out of Go Daddy, but should the people approving this patent also be blamed?
I guess you could try blaming the rubber-stamping machine they're clearly running these applications through, sure.
Just out of curiosity, does anyone have an idea of what sorts of software patent applications have not been approved?