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Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy

Posted by timothy on from the march-fools dept.

Colonel Angus writes "Web Hosting Industry is carrying a story about a company called Ideaflood that has been sending out letters to web hosting firms claiming that they own a patent on subdomains and are claiming a license needs to be purchased to continue to use them. This is reminding me of the hyperlink patent from a couple years back." Maybe Frank Weyer will ask them to wrestle.

2 of 356 comments (clear)

  1. Is Calvin Murphy a child molester? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's just sick. It makes me sad.

  2. maybe it's.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    ... the way things always operate in the D.istric of C.riminals -- bribery and/or blackmail. It just might be in a lot of cases like this, who knows? Low (or perceived low) pay, living in an expensive city, day after day of watching "ideas" somehow "making money" for other people.. who knows, just a thought I had, an immediate reaction.

    As to the issue at hand of software patents, they make as much sense as patenting a book, ie, none. Copyright, OK, patents, no way.