I don't think this "service" will even be successful. Domainers certainly don't want to share their business matters with their Facebook friends. And business owners may spend several months developing a site before publishing it. No timer can predict when the site is done.
Go Daddy patents “announcing a domain name registration on a social website”
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#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Someone should post this on AskPatents.com, to make sure the Patent Office sees it, or is it too late for that already?
The patent is valid as of the issue date. A re-examination request can be filed at any time during the life of the patent. I haven't yet heard what, if any, formal relationship AskPatents.com will have to the examination process going forward. However, at least for an already-issued patent a re-exam would be required.
From my understanding the director of the patent office David Kappos, was the one that asked the people at stack exchange to make this site. I suppose they indeed haven't given any further details of how they will interact, but I don't see him taking this initiative without intending to bring to the attention of his office the patent questions which receive the highest votes. (seeing that is how stack exchange works anyways.)
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#53On this basis:
A photo-sharing service can patent "announcing a picture upload on a social website". A location service can patent "announcing a check-in on a social website" A restaurant review service can patent "announcing a restaurant rating on a social website"
It might actually help more such "ridiculous" patents being granted. Eventually, the non-tech crowd will be affected and the whole system will be brought into question.
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#54They should patent "Getting Away With Outrageous Misogyny In A Business That Would Seem Inhospitable For It"; that's their true and only talent.
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#55No. GoDaddy titles a patent "Announcing a Domain Name Registration on a Social Website" Regardless of your position on US copyright law, you simply must understand this important and not-so-subtle distinction before you make arguments about the validity of a patent. There are 18 claims in this patent. Read and complain about specific claims. To choose a random example, patent US496217 by Stihl (1990) is titled "Handl…
"Handle for a chain saw" patents are usually described with language precise enough they can't do that.
"Method and apparatus for lifting and operating a chain saw" would be more akin to the useless software patents that are out there.
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#56The 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.
There's still a huge valid question about reform as opposed to scrap. The system would work if it was actually applied correctly. (I understand application is part of said system, but I'm referring to the overall human aspect, ie, the reason AskPatents.com was made.)
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#57Software patents with troll owners have long been the Sword of Damocles for the bootstrapped startup. This one is probably of no consequence but overall they represent a barrier to entry that has no basis in natural law. I really doubt we'll ever see meaningful reform because those who could effect a change don't have a clue about the technology their laws affect.
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#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
Genius, however, I had already patented getting a patent on patenting the announcing of a domain name registration on a social website. times infinity...
Guys, this isn't reddit. Edit: Or Slashdot.
Thanks for letting us know. My browser's location bar is a blur.
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#59I don't think this "service" will even be successful. Domainers certainly don't want to share their business matters with their Facebook friends. And business owners may spend several months developing a site before publishing it. No timer can predict when the site is done.
Yeah, but imagine the lay user buying a domain and letting their friends know about it. Then everyone else is like, "Wow, you got your own dot com!"... "Me three".
And so Godaddy makes money.
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#60They should patent "Getting Away With Outrageous Misogyny In A Business That Would Seem Inhospitable For It"; that's their true and only talent.
but there is so much prior art for that!