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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.'"
This company wouldn't have any affiliation with Microsoft would it???
What, it wasn't a troll this time. Goatse.cx really has been shut down.
(I am not responsible if you click the link and it's back up... as of 7:45 PM EST, 15 Jan 04, it's down.)
Hey, does anyone have a working link to a picture of the woman who filed the complaint against goatse.cx?
I have virii on my boxen! Microsoft are gay!
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do your worst to this person
Its the mad cow thing.
Oh please this is getting fucking stupid. Fair enough if you patent something very complex and impressive thats taken years of work, but really, most patents are just a joke - literally! if i was a patent clark i would actually just tell some of these people to fuck off and come back when they had something real, this patent is literally about some bloody dots, it pisses me off, its not even as though they even invented email, domain names or url formatting!! copyright law is a big joke.
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haha. So have any feminazis filed a complaint against that site yet?
and I have to pay Goatse Guy $10 everytime I take a big, painful shit.
Table-ized A.I.
Those fuckers would probably do just that, too. First they take all our jobs and then they try to throw their newfound wealth around. I hope nobody buys there shit, although it's getting pretty tough to buy American anymore.
You obviously don't prosecute patents for a living. I see 103 rejections all the time and for non-obvious material (35 USC 103 is the statute that bars the patenting of obvious subject matter). Contrary to what everyone on /. thinks, you don't just whip out a patent app, give the PTO a check, and poof, you have a patent. Most patents take years, and several Office actions, to get through if they do at all. You only think the rule does not exist because a patent or three a year comes up that is "bad." No one says "look at the hundreds of useful, new, and non-obvious patents that are issued" because it's easier to tear apart the one or two that are broken.
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...URLs patent YOU!!!
Haha, pwned!
you lose, I get inconvenienced.
No, I think it's pretty clear that you've lost.
"Congratulations fuckers you proven why you shouldnt be allowed to have freedoms."
I find it rather amusing that you think some people deserve freedoms more than others? The original guy got all high and mighty and asked for something which he didn't AGREE with get banned. Well how would you react if i said you should be banned from this site? Everyone deserves freedoms, whether you agree with them or not. Your view is very authoritarian-like and I hope you enjoy living in North Korea.
And in a more crude reply, FUCK YOU!
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Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
You are an idiot.
He's really upset. What did you cowardly assholes do?
See, it's quality stuff like this thread that make me browse at -1. Sure, most of the time it's repetitive crap flooding, but every so often, some moron like StarManta bites hard on an obvious troll, and it makes it all worthwhile.
No, YOU lose. From now on, you're posting at -1.
John Ashcroft, is that you?
Now even expressing dissent is a crime, to you anyway.