Whatever they will patent next?

[Belwarrior]

Came across this article while surfing..How did the patent office agree to this patent. Imagine if the US patent office (which is planning to go fully online) has frames on its website, it has just agreed to pay to use what has always been free.

The Link to the article

[Technoid]

Those companys are vultures!!!
When BT tried to claim patent for the links they were at least a "normal" company that found one of their old patents and thought "were in a tight economical situation, we mayby can make some money of this" ....

But this company lives on buying old patents and applying them on modern stuff and then accoust some inoccent person or company

A-HOLES!!!

[Sethos]

OMG!!! that is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard of.

What does this now mean that my site can no longer use frame oh well f*** that sh**, it always has been free and as far as I'm concerned, it will remain so.

I laugh in the face of no brained people.

~Sethos

[Gurm]

LOL.

This is kind of like AOL patenting instant messaging. It's absurd, and will never hold up... I mean, IRC has been around for ages.

- Gurm

[Umfriend]

I am going to try to patent open source software development. It is a *patented* way of developing software by people that disclose their source for free and allow anyone to use and change it as long as they disclose their own software for free as well. Great benefits, but anyone disclosing source code will have to pay me....
Umf (becoming a zillionaire very soon(tm))

[Tempest]

Kinda makes me wonder if anyone has a patent on "a systematic, centralized method of granting and controlling an inventor's rights to his/her intellectual property"... Or whatever.

[LvR]

Tempest - isnt that what Microsoft called DRM?

[Gurm]

No, he's talking about patenting the patent process itself.

- Gurm

[Jon P. Inghram]

Don't forget the infamous XOR patent crap.

[thop]

I was thinking of patenting the idea to patent something. So everytime someone wants to patent sth. he'll have to pay. That will teach em good!!

I hate patent lawyers as much as Gurm hats athletes. They disgust me.

[Taz]

SBC is "not the kind of company that would spend the tens of thousands of dollars it'd take to get a frivolous patent."

Sure

[Jammrock]

Originally posted by thop
I was thinking of patenting the idea to patent something. So everytime someone wants to patent sth. he'll have to pay. That will teach em good!!

I hate patent lawyers as much as Gurm hats athletes. They disgust me.

ROFL!

Remember the big RAMBUS patent stink?

Jammrock

[Gurm]

Wasn't that when some big dumb guy grunted at some other big dumb guy and they pretended it was "strategy"? No wait, that was the super bowl.

- Gurm

[Jessterw]

Next thing you know someone will patent the method of automatically appending the source URL to referenced materials excerpted from an electronic document.