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USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent
SpecialAgentXXX writes "Geek.com reports
that as of Dec 30, 2003, CA lawyer Frank Weyer holds patent #6,671,714
which is 'a method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning
each member of said group a URL of the form name.subdomain.domain and assigning each member of said group an e-mail
address of the form name@subdomain.domain.' He's now, in SCO-like fashion, suing Network
Solutions and Register.com for infringing on his patent. This is
nonsense. My friend who ran for political office in 2000 used this exact naming scheme for his web site. All of us here
can see how asinine this is. Will our legal system?"
you have pissed us off too many times.
Prepare to be slashdotted.
--Xandu
Wake the patent office up and sue THEM! :)
"My friend who ran for political office in 2000 used this exact naming scheme for his web site"
You're friend owns name@subdomain.domain.? That's SO cool
I've never shoed a horse, but I once told a donkey to piss off!
embers-fire
Is that your last name?
That is the COOLEST name I have ever seen! (well, second to Zaxxon...) 2 points!
In the future, I would want to not be isolated from my friends in the Space Station.
I'm going to patent a method of manually stimulating the male organ to orgasm. And watch out, I have lawyers.
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
If all this should have a reason, we would be the last to know.
I didn't think it was a dupe, I thought the USPTO had done it again. :)
While I was shocked recently to read that the USPTO awarded this patent, imagine how shocked I was today to read that they had awarded it *AGAIN* to someone. I wonder if the two guys who got it will sue each other now?
RagManX
"Case dismissed, suing party shot for being total asshole."
What do you have against the the postal service?
A couple years ago the patent office lost a legal battle over their use of a rubber stamp with the word "DENIED" on it. Apparently someone had a patent on the device, and the USPTO was in violation.
Did you hear the REAL reason that goatse.cx was taken down?
Darl McBride fell down in a Walmart, spilling his scalding hot coffee on his (very shrivelled) member. He got so hopping mad he called David Boies and said "SUE EVERYBODY". In the resulting shitstorm, a Cease and Decist was accidentally sent to goatse.cx.
And that's how it happened.
Where's my lobbyist? Right here.
Have a heart, they're probably all sharing Cmdr Taco's (56kbps) pipe.
One line blog. I hear that they're called Twitters now.
I know. I'll patent "A method of annoying Slashdot readers by publishing articles about the same exact event twice." That way, it will be illegal to have dupes!
-jag
http://starboard.flowtheory.net/
Have you seen most slashdot constituents? They sit in front of computers all day and don't get any exercise. They are that large.
Don't blame me; I'm never given mod points.
Aww, man... and I just had business cards printed up with my email address.
DecafJedi
my weblog: apropos of something
So they obviously switched to the un-patented "APPROVED" one, and all is running smoothly...
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I'm going to patent a method for registering an idea or invention in a central location and assigning the idea/invention a unique reference ID number. I bet nobody has done this before.
Now I just need someone to sue....
Profit!
Now the lawyers are getting patents. This was to be expected. If they have to wait for some semi-fraudulent IP business to hire them, they might have to wait several weeks or even months. This way, they get immediate and full benefit from their lowlife tactics. Ingenious.
"A Process to Patent Methods that are Obvious"
"A Process to Patent Methods that have Prior Art"
Then, all of these people will be violating my patents when they do these sorts of things. It'll stop the stupid patents and/or make me rich. Either way, I'm happy.
If it doesn't pan out, I might follow up by patenting "A Method for Patenting Inventions". That should shut the whole patent office down since they would be violating my patent each time they award any patent.
Sorry dude, but there's far too much prior art for your petent to be valid. :)
4) Win lawsuits
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