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Ebay patent suit. Company claims patent to online auction.

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Company sues Ebay

To hell with patenting an idea. I say you deserve a patent if you build it. I can patent an idea for a method of time travelling or teleporting. All I have to do is use all the physics / science jargon, make some new lingo up, etc..

 
Let's see... I have a vague idea about something... I have no idea how to build it or implement... so I'm just going to put a patent on it anyway, wait 10 years for someone who had a similar idea to actually go through the effort of creating it, then I'm just going to sue the hell out of them for their superior industriousness.
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Originally posted by: Vic
Let's see... I have a vague idea about something... I have no idea how to build it or implement... so I'm just going to put a patent on it anyway, wait 10 years for someone who had a similar idea to actually go through the effort of creating it, then I'm just going to sue the hell out of them for their superior industriousness.
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Hell yeah, the American way.
 
Just be like this guy

who is responsible for:

ANOTHER PATENT LAWSUIT - COMPUTERIZED, VEHICLE-TRACKING SYSTEM
_ Information technology vendor ArrivalStar has sued 14 companies, claiming they infringed
ArrivalStar?s patent rights in its computerized, vehicle-tracking system used in tracking flight arrivals,
emergency vehicles, school buses, and other services. The defendants include such heavyweights as
American Express, Travelocity, several of the major airlines, a municipality, a major freight company,
and others. This lawsuit is seen as similar to the claims in the meeting planning area by Software
Management Inc., although the subject matter is very different. Associations have been among
those targeted by SMI?s warnings of patent (if and when granted) infringement. It is too early
to tell if associations will face significant exposure.

link

From what I gather...it's just some guy who patented the process of vehicle arrival notification. And, apparently, he's asking for huge sums of money and/or large percentages of existing contracts.

Heck, I should have patented the idea behind instant messaging when I thought of it during the MSN beta back in 1994. Would have beaten AOL to the punch by two years! 😀
 
i hate when some moron bureaucrat who doesn't know what he is looking at lets through extremely broad patents.
 
Originally posted by: ndee
PATENTS CAN SUCK THE BIG ONE! I'm really fed up by that bullcrap.
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Patents in and of themselves are fine and necessary. It's these speculative and outageously broad patents that the patent office has been letting through that is the problem.
Hell, I'm gonna patent the earth and sue God. 😛
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thats like patenting an internet forum or online store. everybody wants a piece of the pie but nobody wants to work for it.
 
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