URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued

theodp writes "A newly formed company is suing Network Solutions and Register.com for infringing on its e-mail and domain naming patent, which covers assigning each member of a group a URL of the form 'name.subdomain.domain' and an e-mail address of the form 'name@subdomain.domain.'"

Comments

Stop the World i wana get off

[Cyberglich]

The World has gone mad. Beam be up i am out of here.

Re:Stop the World i wana get off

[mhesseltine]

I'm sorry, but "Beam me up" is a Trademark of Star Trek Enterprises, Inc. For your unauthorised use of this phrase, you owe us a Darl McBridely sum of $699.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Star Trek Enterprises, Inc. Legal Dept.

Re:Stop the World i wana get off

[Lonath]

you owe us a Darl McBridely sum of $699.

You SCO bastards, you killed my son. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!

Re:Stop the World i wana get off

[gcalvin]

Yeah, exactly, you think you'd ever find an Einstein working in a patent office?

Patent the patent

[rjstanford]

So when is amazon going to sue them for violating their sue-for-something-obvious-and-not-patentable patent? Not that they were the first to do such a thing, but hey, that never stopped them from getting patents before, right?

[sigh]

Re:Patent the patent

[Frymaster]

this made me think of a business plan!

i'm going to patent the idea that a business plan can be suing people who break alleged patents. then sue all the companies that sue companies for break patents because it breaks my patent.

or something like that.

Getting in early.

[WasterDave]

A good two and a half months before 1st April. Go join the queue. Behind SCO.

Dave

Oh. C'mon!

[holzp]

I just patented freaking letters and numbers. So I am going to sue everyone! Sheesh!

Re:Oh. C'mon!

[pseudochaotic]

Your application itself would have been prior art. But nice try.

They're too late!

[JoshWurzel]

I've already patented the letters U, R, and L! After Microsoft patented 1's and 0's [http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatent s.html], I had to find a way to get even! Now, they can't even spell their own name without paying me.

Oh yeah, and CmdrTaco owes me $0.10 every time he says "CmdrTaco". And $0.50 every time the name "slashdot" appears.

'Bout bloody time!

[Jeremiah Cornelius]

I think that the next patent that ought to be pursued in court is the symbolic representation of language as phonetically derived characters. 'Twas recently discovered to be the proerty of a company forming just next week, to assume such rights.

Re:'Bout bloody time!

[IntelliTubbie]

I think that the next patent that ought to be pursued in court is the symbolic representation of language as phonetically derived characters. 'Twas recently discovered to be the proerty of a company forming just next week, to assume such rights.

You forgot to include the phrases "a system for implementing" and "on a computer."

a system for implementing the symbolic representation of language as phonetically derived characters on a computer

See, much better! Now watch the royalties roll in. BTW, I own the patent on this method, so you should just endorse those royalty checks over to me....

Cheers,
IT

Re:Slightly funnier take

[niko9]

I take issue with the term entrepeneurs, as scum-sucking bottom feeders seems more appropriate, but you get the idea.

Reminds me of an apropos joke:

What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?

One is a scum suking bottom dweller, and the other is a fish.

Thank you /bow/ thank you, I'm here every Thursday night at Club Slashdot...

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India patents zero and binary

[teetam]

In related news, India has decided to patent its invention of zero and the place value number system, which is the basis for decimal, octal, hexadecimal and binary number systems.

Unless all computers in the world switch to Roman numerals soon, India will become the world's wealthiest nation soon!

It's the end of the world as we know it...

[BOFH Supreme]

..and I feel fine.

Seriously, old fat women that go to Wal-Mart and fall on the wet floor have made their way to IT.

Just they are now heads of companies, heads that somehow rocketed up the company's ass so far that they cannot see reality.

*sigh*

STEEEEMPY, YOU EEEDIOT

Re:Slightly funnier take

[Kris_J]

And if you want to comment on the news.com.com article, you can send an email to news@com.com.

G 'n R

[fiftyLou]

"GNR manages the registry, and they're also potential infringers"

G'nR ?? I thought they broke up when Slash went solo.

Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty

Right...

[ProtonMotiveForce]

Bush: Saddam Hussein must be stopped.
You: Hussein wouldn't have any affiliation with Microsoft would it???

Someone: Hitler was one of the most evil men alive.
You: Hmm. Hitler wouldn't have any affiliation with Microsoft would it???

So I guess what I'm saying here is that you are truly a nerd, my man. A bit of a kook in that you seem to think MS is out to get you, but nerdly none the less. I salute you.

Re:Prior Art Anyone?

[petabyte]

So, anyone have a website log or e-mail from before November 23,1999?

Damn, and this whole Slashdot thing starting on Nov 24th. We're hosed!!

End Sarcasm. :)

Future entrepreneurs, this may come in handy:

[kafka93]

With apologies if it's been posted before..

The Prior-Art-O-Matic

Re:Not as bad as SCO.

[Tablizer]

.md belongs to the Republic of Moldova

They name countries after fridge leftovers? Is there a Slimistan? Rottovia? Burntoastan? Meltedicecreamatia? Drippingpizzanica? Beercannia?

I NIHIL I I NIHIL I NIHIL

[marcello_dl]

I I NIHIL I I NIHIL NIHIL I I NIHIL

DEFECTVS SEGMENTATIONIS

Svre, i can manage that. Lvcky that I, as one, live in Italy ;)

Once we've settled the prior art dispvte vvith the Greeks (damn their alphas and betas, by Jove, vve'll have to invade them again), ovr nation shall rise again!

All your ascii are belong to vs.