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USPTO Grants CA Lawyer Domain-Naming Patent

Posted by timothy on 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?"

5 of 387 comments (clear)

  1. Repost by coug_ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Wasn't this posted some time ago?

  2. Repeat story? by RT+Alec · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Is this the same story as posted a few days ago?

  3. new patent by xenoputtss · · Score: 1, Redundant

    What we need to do is file a patent on a system of patenting different things. Of course this patent would have to be exactly what our patent office does. That way we can sue the patent office, and that will basicly force a patent reform.

  4. sue the uspto by pitc · · Score: 0, Redundant

    has anyone tried this? is it possible to sue the patent office saying they're being 'negligent in the duties' or something?

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  5. Re:DUPE. by hesiod · · Score: 0, Redundant

    > (BTW fahrenheid sucks, you should start using celsius

    Yes, "fahrenheid" does indeed suck, because it's not a word. Anyway, if you think that a unit of measurement "sucks," you must have some very crippling mental disorder. No one cares, get over it.