StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
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StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
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Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#2I don't know why it takes so long to grant a patent when all they do is slide it under the rubber stamp machine.
Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#3I don't know why it takes so long to grant a patent when all they do is slide it under the rubber stamp machine.
Some articles I've read suggest that it's intentional on the part of the applicant. The idea is to extend the useful life of the patent by delaying the application's completion as much as possible.
Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#4I don't know why it takes so long to grant a patent when all they do is slide it under the rubber stamp machine.
Some articles I've read suggest that it's intentional on the part of the applicant. The idea is to extend the useful life of the patent by delaying the application's completion as much as possible.
Definitely worked well for some people:
"By April 1988, when Gould's use patent was approved, optically pumped amplifier patents covered 80% of the lasers made in the United States. The market for lasers had ballooned to more than $500 million per year. Suddenly, Gould was a multimillionaire."
http://electronicdesign.com/article/components/gordon-gould-...
Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#5Wow. Where I live, since at least 2005, I can choose the seats in a movie theatre when buying a ticket (even online now). Seems like a lot of prior art.
Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#6Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some articles I've read suggest that it's intentional on the part of the applicant. The idea is to extend the useful life of the patent by delaying the application's completion as much as possible.
Definitely worked well for some people: "By April 1988, when Gould's use patent was approved, optically pumped amplifier patents covered 80% of the lasers made in the United States. The market for lasers had ballooned to more than $500 million per year. Suddenly, Gould was a multimillionaire." http://electronicdesign.com/article/components/gordon-gould-...
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Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#7Wow. Where I live, since at least 2005, I can choose the seats in a movie theatre when buying a ticket (even online now). Seems like a lot of prior art.
The patent in question (which I believe is 8,024,234) only covers a method for people selling tickets to compare prices for tickets across a venue in the form of a venue map. It does not describe an interface for purchasing them.
(Don't construe this as a defence of it though.)
Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Definitely worked well for some people: "By April 1988, when Gould's use patent was approved, optically pumped amplifier patents covered 80% of the lasers made in the United States. The market for lasers had ballooned to more than $500 million per year. Suddenly, Gould was a multimillionaire." http://electronicdesign.com/article/components/gordon-gould-...
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Presumably, Gould had delivered a useful and valuable invention to the world and the patent sets him up to be compensated accordingly, if the premise holds.
Re: StubHub granted U.S. patents for seat mapping
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#10How is this substantially new? This type of article makes the US patent system laughable.