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Too late ( https://www.google.com/patents/WO2004095226A2?cl=en&dq=%22pa... ). Dude beat you to it by several years.
They should start using that against patent trolls.
Question: If I build a start up here in Bolivia, it gets big among Latinamerican users - can I take a huge giant shit on the US patent system? Or does the patent system apply if my website application code is hosted on US servers?
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As someone not familiar with how patenting really works, that's exactly what I thought at first, and reading patents isn't exactly a clear way to understand what is "actually patented" either. In this case when I read it I understood, but sometimes reading them leaves me MORE confuses.
Step-by-step beginner's guide to determining the scope of patents: 1. Read the claims. :-)
Also, as an ademdum to 1., specifically read the independant claims (the ones which don't mention other claims) for the definition of the broadest scope they're seeking to claim.
Question: If I build a start up here in Bolivia, it gets big among Latinamerican users - can I take a huge giant shit on the US patent system? Or does the patent system apply if my website application code is hosted on US servers?
when an applicant files an application for a patent or a trademark
in a foreign country [...] the owner benefits from the same protection
and the same legal remedy against any infringement as if the owner was
a national owner of this right
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.
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Still doesn't seem like a very novel idea worthy of a patent.
It's not. Prior art is newspaper advertisement. You can't patent something as new just because it's done with a computer, as everyone knows. I bet this will be invalidated as soon as someone tries to enforce it. Easily. But this viral market attempt suggest they will try to get money from some sucker troll before, which I'm all for.
I was going to say that there is also no method of changing a user comment on a newspaper after it has been created, but on a second inspection of the claim, there's no requirement for this within the claim. And based on that, I think you may well be right that there is a good chance of invalidation, because the system boils down to a system where one can place advertisments on specific parts of a piece of online content and being able to pay more for a better looking ad.
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.
Like the way Livejournal lets users with paid accounts choose which userpic appears next to a comment? I believe they've been doing this for years...
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.
Specific scope? Like hell! This could apply to any Internet content.