Nearly all DBs have timestamps. This patent is nonsense. Patent attorneys should also be payed for rejections.
Time-Series Database patented by GE
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#12I remember trolling the linked list patent people 10+ years ago. I sent them an email saying my software made extensive uses of linked lists and it had come to my attention that they had patented them. They sent me to their legal department to arrange an agreement. Insane. I wonder how influxdb et al will receive this news. Here is the list of people who should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves: Lin; Jerry (Latham,…
Pretty much in no way whatsoever. RRDtool as a prior art example.
So I don't know the first thing about software patents, but most central banks (including the Federal Reserve, the European Central Bank, etc.) -- offer web interfaces for manipulating and retrieving economic time-series (say, taking logarithms, adjusting for inflation or PPP, etc). Does this count as "prior art"?
The European Council also has a large, useful system called Eurostat.
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#13Seems you can't sue the USPTO for issuing bad patents according to this[1]. But I think you should be compensated for the cost of a lawsuit based on bad patents.
[1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2012/12/suing-the-uspto-for-issu...
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#15I remember trolling the linked list patent people 10+ years ago. I sent them an email saying my software made extensive uses of linked lists and it had come to my attention that they had patented them. They sent me to their legal department to arrange an agreement. Insane. I wonder how influxdb et al will receive this news. Here is the list of people who should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves: Lin; Jerry (Latham,…
While I in no way agreeing with this decision why are these people responsible for the terrible decision of the USPTO? They just get to apply for a patent, not issue one. The employee(s) at the USPTO that approved this patent are the ones that should be ashamed.
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#16A very quick skimming of the patent suggests that they are talking more about the online / distributed / dataflowish query evaluation engine than about a simple timestamped data storage widget. (Not that this makes it much more novel.)
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#17Sounds a bit like InfluxDB...
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#18I remember trolling the linked list patent people 10+ years ago. I sent them an email saying my software made extensive uses of linked lists and it had come to my attention that they had patented them. They sent me to their legal department to arrange an agreement. Insane. I wonder how influxdb et al will receive this news. Here is the list of people who should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves: Lin; Jerry (Latham,…
While I in no way agreeing with this decision why are these people responsible for the terrible decision of the USPTO? They just get to apply for a patent, not issue one. The employee(s) at the USPTO that approved this patent are the ones that should be ashamed.
Because flooding the USPTO with an unending flow of bogus patents are partly why those same patents get approved. They're taking part of a system that takes advantage of an underfunded and understaffed agency in order to profit from it in the long term, knowing that they will get away with it for years and be able to milk millions through the courts long before anyone big enough shuts them down.
Patent trolling effectively begets more patent trolling, and everyone partaking of it should indeed be ashamed of themselves.
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#19Seems you can't sue the USPTO for issuing bad patents according to this[1]. But I think you should be compensated for the cost of a lawsuit based on bad patents. [1] http://patentlyo.com/patent/2012/12/suing-the-uspto-for-issu...
You can be, if the judge in the eventual suit decides in your favor for legal fees. But this can take years, and patent trolls big and small tend to deliberately target only those who can't really afford to fight them.
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#20I remember trolling the linked list patent people 10+ years ago. I sent them an email saying my software made extensive uses of linked lists and it had come to my attention that they had patented them. They sent me to their legal department to arrange an agreement. Insane. I wonder how influxdb et al will receive this news. Here is the list of people who should be thoroughly ashamed of themselves: Lin; Jerry (Latham,…
Pretty much in no way whatsoever. RRDtool as a prior art example.
Unfortunately, USPTO only considers other patents or academic papers as prior art.