Pop-Under Ads Patented

gopherdata writes "The Oregonian is running a article about a company, Exit Exchange, that claims to have invented the pop-under ad and is currently in the process of patenting it. According to the article the company hopes to collect royalties from other companies using pop-under ads. Are two lines of javascript worthy of a patent?" On the other hand, this is one stupid patent I'd love to see held up, just so that the licensing fees could discourage advertisers from attacking their potential clients.

Comments

good

[r00tarded]

finally i have a target for my rage.

Litigation

[effer]

Now I know who to sue for monetery damages and who'll be the primary liticant on the class action lawsuit!

It's a joke....unfortuneatly!

how long will it be...

[Gildor]

...before someone patents the process opf patenting?

Superb Idea!

[chuckcolby]

What a superb idea! Maybe I could patent the spamming process, and force spammers to pay me every time they use unwanted email to peddle their crap. I'll either die rich or spam-free, either would work for me.

Chaco

If only I'd acted sooner!

[bafu]

I wish I could patent the idea of patenting things that everyone has already been doing for a long time without my even having to have told them about it but, unfortunately, there's way too much prior art for me to get away with it--errr... I mean, to make my claim good. Curses!

shit! What a great idea!!!

[cr@ckwhore]

Has anybody patented spam yet? If somebody could patent spam, and then deny its use, that would be the end of it!!!!

I normally despise these types of silly patents, however in one sick and twisted way, I hope these guys get the patent for pop-under ads. There is potential that they *could* do the right thing and deny right to use. (for american companies at least).

Re:This is worse than a software patent...

[56ker]

Scary is the word to use when you contemplate how many people don't know how to disable javascript and thus get rid of these annoying pop ups, pop unders etc.