USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent

Posted by timothy on Wednesday January 28, 2004 @03:23AM from the sure-why-not-it's-only-a-patent dept.

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?"

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Re:DUPE. by RagManX · 2004-01-28 03:36 · Score: 5, Funny

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
Re:DUPE. by AndroidCat · 2004-01-28 03:44 · Score: 5, Funny

Because the "Editors" don't actually read Slashdot
Have a heart, they're probably all sharing Cmdr Taco's (56kbps) pipe.

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