Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by bsullivan01 » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 4:05 PM UTC

Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)
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Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by bsullivan01 » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 4:07 PM UTC

"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by colinbartlett » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 4:28 PM UTC

That patent system is broken. Period. Everyone knows this and yet movement toward change is frustratingly slow... Against the backdrop of an industry that changes faster than any other.

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by dubrocks » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 4:46 PM UTC

Does anyone else find the doodles incredibly tacky?

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by swayvil » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 4:51 PM UTC

colinbartlett wrote: post #3

That patent system is broken. Period. Everyone knows this and yet movement toward change is frustratingly slow... Against the backdrop of an industry that changes faster than any other.

Dear people who own almost everything.

Please modify the property laws so that entities like yourselves will be constrained from willy-nilly acquiring more stuff (and/or stuff that isn't really stuff).

Sincerely, the people who own doodly squat.

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

dubrocks wrote: post #4

Does anyone else find the doodles incredibly tacky?

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Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by mfieldhouse » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

swayvil wrote: post #5

colinbartlett wrote: post #3

That patent system is broken. Period. Everyone knows this and yet movement toward change is frustratingly slow... Against the backdrop of an industry that changes faster than any other.

Dear people who own almost everything. Please modify the property laws so that entities like yourselves will be constrained from willy-nilly acquiring more stuff (and/or stuff that isn't really stuff). Sincerely, the people who own doodly squat.

I like how you slipped in the use of 'doodly squat' there - very fitting.

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by gibwell » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:26 PM UTC

This is ok because it's google and they are generally benevolent.

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by yapcguy » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:36 PM UTC

bsullivan01 wrote: post #2

"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!

Google has too much money, too much time and too much employee deadwood on its hands.

Why would anyone even bother patenting this? It would have required the employee to ask their boss who would then have to pass it up the chain of command before legal looks over it and clears it for submission to the patent office.

Fire them all!

Re: Google gets patent for its doodles (2011)

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Post by adestefan » Sun, Oct 13, 2013, 5:39 PM UTC

yapcguy wrote: post #9

bsullivan01 wrote: post #2

"A system provides a periodically changing story line and/or a special event company logo to entice users to access a Web page"...or change logo and upload the new one to the website. Revolutionary!

Google has too much money, too much time and too much employee deadwood on its hands. Why would anyone even bother patenting this? It would have required the employee to ask their boss who would then have to pass it up the chain of command before legal looks over it and clears it for submission to the patent office. Fire them all!

Because every time they make really good one everyone says, "Did you see today's Google doodle?" If you can keep other people from doing the same thing, then it keeps them from driving traffic to their site.