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Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by drivingmenuts »

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…

Too late (https://www.google.com/patents/WO2004095226A2?cl=en&dq=%22pa...). Dude beat you to it by several years.

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by jey »

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 already applied for a patent on patent trolling: http://www.google.com/patents/US20070244837

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by charonn0 »

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.

Still doesn't seem like a very novel idea worthy of a patent.

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by sillysaurus »

t0 wrote: post #3

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?

Disregard, then fight it later if you grow big enough to matter.

That said, it can seriously screw you over if you get unlucky: http://www.k9ventures.com/blog/2011/04/27/modista/

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by andrew_k »

For me the most interesting part in this patent was a "PATENT CITATIONS" section. Most of the patents in this section are quite obvious as well. Like Amazon's "Method and system for placing a purchase order via a communications network" basically describes every E-Commerce site on the internet.

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by michaelhoffman »

danmaz74 wrote: post #9
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...

Not at all, only that it's not what people are going to think it is by looking at the title.

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Post by jivatmanx »

"A man has a right to use a saw, an axe, a plane, separately; may he not combine their uses on the same piece of wood? He has a right to use his knife to cut his meat, a fork to hold it; may a patentee take from him the right to combine their use on the same subject? Such a law, instead of enlarging our conveniences, as was intended, would most fearfully abridge them, and crowd us by monopolies out of the use of the things we have."

- Letter to Oliver Evans, (16 January 1814); published in The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (1905) Vol. 13, p. 66.

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by shawnz »

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…

Do you realize that a patent on "making money by asserting patents" wouldn't be a software patent? Please realize that the patent system is flawed in more ways than that, and simply disallowing all software patents is not going to fix the problem.

Re: Patent US8296192 – Method for making money on the internet

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Post by danmaz74 »

michaelhoffman wrote: post #16
danmaz74 wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Not at all, only that it's not what people are going to think it is by looking at the title.

I assumed that nobody could think that the title could be what was patented ;)
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