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Browser Cookie Patent

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the fun-never-ends dept.

resistant writes "Here's more patent madness, this time on cookies used in browsers. (By now, even Forbes has a commendable attitude about this rampant greed)." This is actually a pretty interesting article for folks not so familiar with why patents are such a big deal in this day and age.

4 of 238 comments (clear)

  1. Re:It DOES make sense! by Occam's+Hammer · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here is the story

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    (sig on loan to Smithsonian)
  2. FSC-0056 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here it is, FSC-0056 EMSI/IEMSI.

  3. Patents not adversarial like other courts... by aquarian · · Score: 5, Informative

    One of the main differences between patent courts and the rest of the court system is that patent court is not adversarial by design. When you go for a patent, you're not under such a heavy burden to prove you're worthy of it. And it's not the government's job to prove you're not, or even to put up a challenge. Other courts are adversarial by design. Each side does whatever it can to prove they're right and the other is wrong. Out of this emerges a winner and a loser. The patent system is not like that. Instead of a right and a wrong, we're left with two maybes, and potentially some new barriers to free commerce.

  4. RTFA by PhuCknuT · · Score: 5, Informative

    This isn't a patent on cookies, this is a patent on load balancers detecting cookies and using them to keep a session associated with a specific server in the load ballanced pool.