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Canadian Company Claims RDF Patent

Posted by timothy on from the patenting dept.

quinticent writes: "Looks like they are at it again. Companies seem to like to let a standard become, well, standard before pulling out the lawyers to claim they own a patent on it. Now some Canadian company is claiming they own a US patent on RDF (doesn't Slashdot use RDF?). When will the US government realize that allowing patents on common ideas is just wrong? The CNet article is here."

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  1. Common Idea? by Sc00ter · · Score: 2, Troll
    When is a common idea common? There are so many things that are patented, various types of paper bags, slightly different bottle caps.. Different type of tires that are almost exactly the same as other types of tires.. It's very easy to claim that something is a common idea once it's been invented and patented.


    It just seems silly that all the geeks are bitching about common ideas on patents now when common stuff has been patented since the beginning of patents.

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