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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my god . . . . by hellraizr · 2004-01-28 04:30 · Score: 0, Troll

I would say please shoot me, I've seen enough. but no, PLEASE SHOOT HIM! what a fucking tard! nnnGGRRRHHH I hope an army of geeks castrate's this bastard in public. fucking schiester. I know I'm trolling but man what the hell has the world come to!? post-dot-com has been one scam after another after another. extortion seems to be the only viable business model these days. Oh I can't wait for the feds to step in on this shit. I'll take regulation before I have to hear another one of these assholes trying to ruin the internet!