EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer • Hacker News Board

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by talmand » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 5:55 PM UTC

_asummers wrote: post #4

Similar to the article linked in the post, SCOTUS has started clamping down on these sorts of patents.[0] I suspect this one will also be killed eventually. It's really a shame that the patent office is still giving out these sorts of patents, however, and wasting everyone's time and effort. [0] http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/supreme-court-rul...

But how many millions of dollars will potentially be wasted until it gets killed?

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by _yosefk » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 6:51 PM UTC

chris_wot wrote: post #10

They really need to find a way of firing patent examiners who grant these sort of patents. I'm fairly certain that would help reduce the amount of patents granted,

A way was not yet found to fire Madoff's regulators. (In fact a way should have been found to put them behind bars for a couple of decades.) So regarding firing patent examiners, I'm not holding my breath.

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by knieveltech » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:00 PM UTC

So...teledildonics is a word. I'm going to enjoy trying to work this into conversation.

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by knieveltech » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:01 PM UTC

stillsut wrote: post #3

"teledildonics" - nice, I might add this as a skill to my linkedin

You simply must share any correspondence from recruiters that include reference to this skill.

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by nefitty » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:05 PM UTC

auntienomen wrote: post #9

Perhaps someone should patent a process for generating 'do X on a computer' patents?

I'll patent "do something meta"

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by nefitty » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:06 PM UTC

We must demand and support innovation from the teledildonics sector!

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by s73v3r » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:15 PM UTC

You know, it's really funny that everyone knocks these patents (and rightly so), but the second some service comes up that does the same stuff as has been done before, but suddenly it's "on an app!" that means it's revolutionary, and old regulations shouldn't apply to it.

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by wesomefolks » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 7:22 PM UTC

stillsut wrote: post #3

"teledildonics" - nice, I might add this as a skill to my linkedin

Great comment, it's good to see what kind of quality HN is striving for by which comments they choose to keep and which they choose to downvote.

So long as there's no negativity (or serious economics) HN users are welcome to comment as if they're 12.

Re: EFF's Stupid Patent of the Month: Do It with a Computer

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Post by Abraln » Thu, Jul 30, 2015, 10:20 PM UTC

auntienomen wrote: post #9

Perhaps someone should patent a process for generating 'do X on a computer' patents?

Or even "method for submitting a patent application over the Internet!" If you actually managed to get it, that might actually be stupid enough to get some legislation passed. At minimum it would halt patent applications for a while until it is thrown out.

That's actually not a bad idea. Keep making patents that are as stupid as possible in order to force a change in policy or legislation. Unfortunately the cost would probably make it unfeasible.