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Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by nh » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 9:39 PM UTC

Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet
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#2

Post by spdy » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 9:59 PM UTC

So this is a patent for self payed advertisement for your own comments?

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#3

Post by t0 » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:03 PM UTC

I'm confused about how something like this actually affects us in the startup world. Should I stop trying to innovate because everything I could possibly think of is already patented.. or simply disregard the existence of these patents?

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Post by rch » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

spdy wrote: post #2

So this is a patent for self payed advertisement for your own comments?

Or the comments of others. So I could pay to tag your comment with a clever gif or something.

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#5

Post by linuxhansl » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:08 PM UTC

I should get a patent on "making money by asserting patents". Then I would only grant myself a license and hence have the only patent left that can make money.

Seriously. The way out is a blanket "No software patents" statement from congress; or along the line of what Twitter is doing where all inventors have to agree if their patent is used offensively (although lawyers at my company tell me that such a restriction actually has no legal standing).

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Post by michaelhoffman » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:09 PM UTC

This is another example of a patent with a specific scope being given an incredibly broad title.

This patent is actually on selling web site commenters the ability to have their comment appear in some kind of distinctive format, which might be a different font, or it might be appearing before the other comments.

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Post by danmaz74 » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:11 PM UTC

So, the incredibly ridiculously generic claim 1 has been granted? I really have no more words to express what I think about software patents.

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Post by escaped_hn » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:11 PM UTC

rch wrote: post #4

spdy wrote: post #2

So this is a patent for self payed advertisement for your own comments?

Or the comments of others. So I could pay to tag your comment with a clever gif or something.

aka reddit gold.

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Post by danmaz74 » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

michaelhoffman wrote: post #6

This is another example of a patent with a specific scope being given an incredibly broad title. This patent is actually on selling web site commenters the ability to have their comment appear in some kind of distinctive format, which might be a different font, or it might be appearing before the other comments.

Are you trying to imply that claim 1 has anything, and I mean anything, inventive? BTW this was filed in 2011, not in 1996...

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Post by thwest » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

linuxhansl wrote: post #5

I should get a patent on "making money by asserting patents". Then I would only grant myself a license and hence have the only patent left that can make money. Seriously. The way out is a blanket "No software patents" statement from congress; or along the line of what Twitter is doing where all inventors have to agree if their patent is used offensively (although lawyers at my company tell me that such a restriction…

IBM has one for this: http://www.google.com/patents/US7630915