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Patent Cases Hurting Small Businesses
smudge writes "An Information Week article states that multiple small businesses with Web presence are being sued by PanIP LLC. The claims in these patents being asserted in the lawsuits refer to 'a
computerized system for selecting and ordering a variety of information, goods and services' and 'an automatic data-processing system for processing business and financial transactions between entities from remote sites.'"
Fucking patents!
Yeah, you heard that right, kiddies! I've got a fucking patent! You can't fuck without infringing on my goddamn intellectual property! Kiss my ass! All your roylaties are belong to my giant-ass, motherfucking bank account!
Kiss my balls, motherfuckers!
Are you experienced?
Obviously, they didn't have a good patent attorney. Good patent attorneys know that they should say "a plurality of"--it makes the patent sound more serious.
Some one needs to phrase the job of the US Patent office really vaguly and then get a patent on it. Then sue the patent office for patent infringement.
hmmm, wonder if i could make this into a business plan and get some VC behind me...
Two wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do - Lew of GO magazine
It's true (IMHO), but surely not Funny.
There's something wacky about the moderations happening these days.
Let's just make it that if you patent something that is reviewed, and sounds like a dug-headslap type thing - you get a toenail pulled out with a pair of pliers. On severe cases - just bring back public stoning (no, not drug induced bliss - bludgeoned to h*ll with big fu***** rocks) for the offending numbskull, and his/her lawyer.
:P
Sorry, but I already have a patent pending on this exact method. You'll hear from my solicitor in the morning (never liked him anyway).
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I'm still waiting for the patent on "cylindrical/circular device to facilitate movement in a single direction"
The One Rule Of Chess You'll Ever Need: Don't play someone who carries a kit in their bookbag.
Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeros.
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OK, Amazon.com, Buy.com, bn.com, and anyone else who wants in should set up a fund to hire someone to club the kneecaps of everyone involved in this stupid, stupid lawsuit. My usual style would be to hit them in the face with a frying pan, since it is almost impossible to misinterperet that action as anything other than sheer and utter revulsion and hate, but sometimes the frying pan just doesn't do the job.
I mean, seriously. This is one of those 'just when you had accepted the fact that things couldn't get any more stupid or pointless, you were harshly proven wrong' things. I'm going to patent candy and beachballs and start collecting royalty payments from kids, those pathological users of unlicensed intellectual property... (No, don't even try and apply logic to that one. Trust me, don't.)
I'm ready to put in $20 for the hitman. Who is with me? Hey, it worked for the blender source code.
(OK, I'm not an evil person. I really just wish they would drop the lawsuits and grow a spine and some clue. That would be far preferable to having to spend money on a hitman. I mean, uh, I hope nothing bad happens to them. But I'll probably smirk if something does. No, wait... If the police ask, I had nothing to do with it. Yeah, that's the ticket...)
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A system for the disabling of logical, rational thought; a system that creates random decisions and has no method of control or accountability?
Sorry. I really don't think you can patent the U.S. Patent Office itself.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I was talking to a friend about a more libertarian or maybe even anarchistic legal system . . .I think there really is a constructive role for government to play, if only they were effective and actually represented the people. . .I forget the technical legal term. . . and he was telling me about an example (which I also forgot).
Yeah, I like smoking weed with my friends too.
He painted a unicorn in outer space. I'm askin' ya, what's it breathin'?
Unfortunately, cruel and unusual punishments are prohibited by the Constitution, and this is certainly both.
All movements for social change begin as missions, evolve into businesses, and end up as rackets.
What sort of help did your lemons need?
I'd think any patent that uses phrases like "a variety of" is too vague.
I'm considering patenting ``a method of doing a variety of things with the internet'', and suing all /. readers.