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Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites

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Re: Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites

#5
It is obvious that for some reason the officers in the patent office are not able to find out that the "technology" to be patented is really an ages old technique or device defined in a horribly bloated language to either hide what it really is or include anything and everything that may have any small piece in common with that art or device.

And i guess it's always seen or shown as the patent office is responsible for the problem, not the individual officers who really are the ones that mess up.

Isn't it possible to hold the individual officers or at least the patent office responsible for the damages caused from granting patents to these kind of bogus claims?

Re: Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites

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I'm no scripting historian, but I believe the relevant date from which to judge this patent's validity is 4/12/2000, the date of the provisional application from which this patent was born. As of that date, were these types of embedded components possible?

Re: Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites

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This means if one is doing cross site request by adding script tag and parsing json response will infringe this patent. Really?

It's not clear to me whether the process you describe would infringe. It seems to me that if the component server returns only a data object with all scripting instructions provided by the host computer, this patent would not be infringed. This patent appears to me to be speaking to plugins that return both data and script. Facebook's like button comes to mind, perhaps ...

Re: Patent US7680883 - Dynamic integration of web sites

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This means if one is doing cross site request by adding script tag and parsing json response will infringe this patent. Really?

It's not clear to me whether the process you describe would infringe. It seems to me that if the component server returns only a data object with all scripting instructions provided by the host computer, this patent would not be infringed. This patent appears to me to be speaking to plugins that return both data and script. Facebook's like button comes to mind, perhaps ...

Then so called "JsonP" is definitely infringing...
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