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  1. Re:And I patent...... by miller60 · · Score: 1 · on Nintendo Patents Online Console Gaming

    Don't laugh. There are firms whose entire strategy appears to be an intellectual property land grab by being the first to submit a patent application for a widely-used business concept. It's a big issue in web hosting, where a patent squatter has been awarded a patent for the subdomain and applied for a bunch more. Even SCO had an actual business, once upon a time. For some companies, patents are the business.

  2. IP - the new battleground. by BenBenBen · · Score: 2, Informative · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy
    The same company (IdeaFlood) has on its press release page a release dated November last year in which they detail their claim to pop-ups spawned "onexit". The patent they refer to was issued 2002, and filed 1998, by some joker who then assigned it to these modern-day racketeers.

    Am I the only person who was on the internet pre-1998? Every day I see a patent relating to things that were plaguing us in 1995, and a company that honestly believes they can claim "2% of... the $9.5bn income this method generates".

    Puhh-lease.
  3. Latest press release show their intentions by larske · · Score: 1 · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

    If there was any doubt about their business plan their latest press release shows what they are doing: IDEAFLOOD, INC. TO SELL CORE INTERNET PATENT. They patent obvious web techniques and try to sell the patents to the highest bidder. This first subdomain patent threat may just be to show potential bidders that the patents they hold have a potential value. If they manage to sell their patents I do not think IdeaFlood will pursue patent violation claims anymore. They leave that to their patent buyers.

  4. Re:look at their patent applications by AndroidCat · · Score: 0, Redundant · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

    Yeah, I'm looking. I think there's prior art for that too.

  5. Re:Read their site, they spell it out! by pete6677 · · Score: 1 · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

    Not only that, but their website even has links to articles that bash Internet patents. They know exactly what they are doing, and are proud of it. I would say the founders of this firm deserve to die, but that would be going far too easy on them.

  6. Re:Over and Over and Over by RTPMatt · · Score: 2, Informative · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

    didja check out the rest of their patents? ya, sounds like these guys are gonna be a ton-o-fun

  7. Read their site, they spell it out! by Monkelectric · · Score: 4, Interesting · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy
    Here." "if even a small fraction of these applications are granted, a huge number of business methods and technologies that are now widely deployed across the Internet shall in effect become commodities which the patent holder can leverage to extract licensing fees or, in the alternative, damages from infringers."

    They basically say their business model is to crapflood the patent office and see who the can fuck.

  8. Something else interesting... by glitch · · Score: 5, Funny · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

    Try going to http://www.ideaflood.com/youre_a_bunch_of_asswipes

    I think their 404 page is broken =]

  9. Ideaflood = who? by mybecq · · Score: 4, Informative · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy
    ideaflood.com says:
    Ideaflood, Inc. has more than 30 patents and patent applications,
    many of which were filed before the US Patent and Trademark Office
    began publishing patent applications, and cover many widely used and
    easily recognizable technologies that make the internet possible and
    profitable. Much of Ideaflood's intellectual property is just as
    central to core internet functions, but operate behind-the-scenes on
    network servers and other back-end hardware and software.

    whois.net says:
    Organization Name: IdeaFlood, Inc
    Name: DOMAIN FOR SALE
    [snip]
    Record Created on........ 1999-11-05

    I say:
    Phooey.

    (PS. We're so big we don't even run our own nameservers!)
  10. 6,270,409 - Method and apparatus for Gaming? by strictnein · · Score: 3, Informative · on Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

    Looking at the "patents" they have and I'm really confused. On their (or really Steven's) page they have listed a patent for: PATENT NO: US 6,270,409 - Method and apparatus for gaming

    If you actually look at the text of the patent though, it reads completely different and the patent number is also different. It is patent 6,304,788 and relates to a patent for "Method and apparatus for controlling medical monitoring devices over the internet".

    And now that I look at it, the first patent link is incorrect too. The text states that it is patent #6,389,458 but it links to patent #6,687,746.

    WTF?

    I think this guy is trying extortion, plain and simple.