Patent Troll Claims He Owns the Interactive Web

[billybobser]

[citation][nom]bloob[/nom]Ideas shouldn't be patentable, implementations should be.[/citation]
Hear hear.

Since I could use my wildest imagination to generally patent everything.

 

[krakhen]

[citation][nom]bloob[/nom]Ideas shouldn't be patentable, implementations should be.[/citation]

there you go! I hope these lawsuits keep coming up until the system simply breaks down...
Companies want to patent gestures, positions, colors, etc... simply ridiculous!

 

[Drazz]

Why doesn't Al Gore just end the patent troll thing once and for all by suing anyone who uses his invention? Then anyone who sues over a patent on internet technology would simply have to pay him instead, making the patent trolling pointless.

 

[wiyosaya]

This patent trolling crap is out-of-hand. Patent laws need re-writing and in a way that benefits the general public, not the 1%.

 

[bustapr]

[citation][nom]SetZ[/nom]The question is: Why has he done it just now?[/citation]
i believe it might be because the patent ends next year...

 

[guruofchem]

EOLAS - Extremely Obnoxious Legal Attack Strategy

or perhaps Extraordinarily Obfuscatory Litigiously Activist Sandbaggers

A troll by any other name...is still a troll.

 

[Guest]

I say he should be hitting Hollywood sopa types for the money

If he owns it he should WIN

Stop crying like namecalling babies who can't play on their internets for free

Troll - someone who I am jealous of because he had a better idea, pursued it, and I didn't

 

[rohitbaran]

@Pramod Kumar. You sir are a complete moron.

Yeah sure! [\sarcasm]

 

[ctmk]

well... now days the already n years old (suspected outdated) patents system are just stupid and slow things down.

 

[Gin Fushicho]

Oh man..... this guy is the first real Super villain, where is Batman?

 

[g-thor]

Don't call them a patent troll. It may upset the real patent trolls. These guys are even worse - patent slugs.

Perhaps it's not the patent laws that are broken. Maybe the problem is the Patent Office doesn't have the staff and resources they need. For example, do they have experts to consult on whether a patent makes sense, or is it really prior art. How much do they understand computers, programming, the internet, etc. That may be where the fault lies.

The article states

the W3C contacted the patent office directly with a letter signed by Berners-Lee, stating that unless the disputed patent was invalidated, it would cause the "disruption of global web standards" ...The PTO reexamined and then rejected the patent, but then re-validated the patent again after Doyle and his lawyers insisted on a right to some kind of patent claim.

So this patent has been accepted, rejected and accepted back again (the prodigal patent?). This indicates to me that the Patent Office lacks the expertise to truly evaluate the submission, so they need experts who can - experts like Tim Berners-Lee.

 

[Pawessum16]

We need a new TV drama called Patent Trolls vs Patent Trolls where all the big corporations are portrayed as 10 year olds who are fighting over toys, and they all spend their time bullying each other to acquire toys they don't even intend to play with.

 

[Guest]

Trolls regenerate health when wounded but are susceptible to fire.

 

[sykozis]

[citation][nom]SetZ[/nom]The question is: Why has he done it just now?[/citation]
The real question is: How is Eolas holding a patent on "technology" that belongs to the University of California?

I really don't understand how a person or company can obtain a patent that depends on a technology "invented" by someone else..... All rights to anything involving that "technology" should belong to it's "inventor" in whole.

 

[blazorthon]

No longer can Apple, Rambus, etc. be tied for first place in the Greatest Patent Troll Competition because this guy got the gold medal. Don't worry folks, it's only fools gold. Maybe we'll get lucky and it'll work as a lightning rod during a storm and kill him.

 

[Prey]

Just fix the problem. As long as you allow a company/entity to patent things like, the motion of page turning, it will never stop. They don't plan on winning, they plan on settling out of court.

 

[A Bad Day]

Submitting an patent application, patenting the concept of the wheel. Now all I need is some startup funds for a good lawyer...

 

[coldmast]

I'm sorry, the ability to transmit video over a cable is much older than 1993.
This is what the patent is about.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe
Hear is prior art that outdates it by 4 years:
http://www.techiemania.com/an-overview-of-webcasting.html

In 1989, Brian Raila of GTE Laboratories introduced the concept of “Webcasting”. It was at the 1989 New York conference where he broadcasted that a group of people were able to download, watch and listen to online.

Send me a check with a 1 and a quantity of zeros.

 

[eddieroolz]

I think this is the chance to have Tim Berners-Lee, and a group of interested companies to invalidate this patent for the sake of our future.