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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 02:39 PM EDT |
My guess is that the members of the USPTO et. al. reason
along the lines of: The fact that patents are granted is a
sign of innovation happening. Thus: the more patents are
granted, the more innovation is 'going on'. The USPTO's
crucial role in the process of stimulating innovation is to
grant each and every patent that can possibly be approved.
QED.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 03:03 PM EDT |
I guess that all that prior art out there counted for nowt then?
I announced a website for my Camera Club in about 1998 on a Forum where other
people (members of Camera Clubs) did the same. Sadly the site no longer exists.
Pah. Bunkum, Popycock and Balderdash.
{Now that is a good name for a firm of Lawyers :) }
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 04:19 PM EDT |
The prophet Wm Shakespeare foresaw this,
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. [Sonnet 116]
or p'raps
Sour-ey'd disdain and discord shall bestrew
The union, of your bed with weeds so loathly
That you shall hate it both: [Tempest IV:i]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 07:02 PM EDT |
What else can we patent? The announcement on social media of the acquisition of
a toothbrush? The announcement on social media of a new cell phone? The
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 07:07 PM EDT |
Then, they keep granting stupid patents like these. Sane
people
have to question whether they serve ANY constructive
role. Where they intended
to be such a big rubber stamp for
any stupid idea somebody attempts to
patent?
You don't know what you are talking about. This patent
was initially REJECTED by the USPTO. If you want to see why it was allowed, why
don't you go over the USPTO web site and find out?
Type the address http://portal.uspto.gov/ext
ernal/portal/pair into your browser. Then enter the Captcha verification
code. Select the "Patent Number" radio button and enter the patent number of
the patent (8,276,057) in the box. Voom! You are taken to the entire history
of the patent.
Click the "Image File Wrapper" tab, and then click on the
empty box next to the blue "PDF" box under the heading "Available Documents."
This will select every (or almost every) document filed in the USPTO in this
patent application. (It won't check copyrighted documents, nor will it let you
download these.) Then click on the blue "PDF" box and download the entire file
wrapper contents into a directory. (The file won't be nearly as large as
indicated when you start the download.) You can then view this file wrapper to
your heart's content with your favorite PDF reader.
I invite you to view the
statement of "Allowable Subject Matter" in the 6-page version of the Notice of
Allowance and Fees Due. It says,
... [T]he prior art discloses
publishing a user action and a link to a website associated with the user action
on a social networking website based on user permission. ... Further, the prior
art discloses means of sending a notification of changes to a domain name
request, e.g., monitoring whether a new domain name registration has become
active. ... Still further, the prior art discloses a method for registering a
domain name and publishing the new domain to a search website. ... However, the
prior art fails to disclose or suggest the combination of
..."
You can read the rest, and I invite you to do so in
conjunction with the prior art, the examiner's original rejection, the
amendments to the claims, and the arguments made supporting the patentability of
the amended claims. After you read this material, you will be in a position to
comment intelligently on whether this patent should have been allowed or not.
Before you do that, I submit that you are not in such a position.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, September 27 2012 @ 09:06 PM EDT |
Haven't crawled through every boring word of it, but in the
preamble (the more than two pages that describe how
computers and the Internet work) the twenty lines describing
a "network" and the Internet have been duplicated verbatim
except for the sentence about Web Sites, which has been
amended to say Web Pages and a sentence added, describing a
Web Site as a set of Web Pages.
I wonder how much Go Daddy paid to have a document produced
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