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Subdomains Part Of The Patent Frenzy
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.
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I stand to gain millions. Invest in me now or fear my wrath when I have a laser death canon on the mooon!
"Gee, that's an awful nice "yro" you got there. Be an awful shame if anything were to happen to it."
> I am patenting my ASS.
At this very instant I am reading this from the bathroom while infringing on your patent.
Sue me.
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"All your subdomain are belong to us."
Keep your eyes to the sky.
I just hope the merger and acquisition department at SCO is keeping tabs on these valuable garbage intellectual property firms. Imagine if SCO (the owners of linux), IdeaFlood (who owns subdomains), that group that owns the patent to hyperlinks, and all the rest of the garbage IP claims got together...why, they could sue the world. Think of the value of the stock of that company!!!!
And I'll patent your "comunication" misspellings.
Then, if it was just the common stupidity they shared here, yeah, I see the similarity.
Boom Shanka
Oh my GOD! The patented DNS!
/etc/hosts for me?
You Bastards!
I won't pay. No, no, no. Anyone got a complete
Free as in mason.
why...that's brilliant! Finally I can realize my dream of never again seeing the word "loose" written when "lose" is intended! By patenting it, I can simply charge a fee equal to my annoyance at the sight of that extra little o. Say, 50 grand per incident.
Liberal (adj.): Free from bigotry; open to progress; tolerant of others.
I own a server, and it has subdomains on it. In fact, I think I'll go create a few dozen more subdomains. And this is my personal and public invitation for Ideaflood to suck my big fat wingy-wang.
I've said it before (mostly about SCO) and I'll say it again...
Those who can, innovate.
Those who can't, litigate.
I want a new quote. One that won't spill. One that don't cost too much. Or come in a pill.
You can't patent a reeferer. I'm holding some prior art sparking away in my hand as I type this.
*Slow motion smoke cloud exhaled*
True story.
Back in my day, before these idealfoods people made subdomains, I had fun on all the websites on the internet. I used to go to gov, mil, com, edu and sometimes org.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
Sure, actually there are several dozen people at the patent offices who are knowledgeable about most, if not all, of the subjects that are covered by these silly patents and each takes the time to read them when presented with them.
They're the janitorial staff and they giggle like mad every time they empty the wastepaper baskets.
I hope so, will make the case that much more interesting.
President ISES
(International Society for Elimination of Sigs)
Do YOU understand what this patent means?
It's not a patent on "subdomains," it's a patent on automatically GENERATING subdomains. A pretty specific practice.
I'm pretty sure that tess2 is not a user of uspto.gov whose patent site was automatically generated when she signed up. Ipso facto, they're NOT in violation of the patent.
I should patent not reading the fucking article. I'd make a killing on slashdot.
Hey freaks: now you're ju
Try going to http://www.ideaflood.com/youre_a_bunch_of_asswipes
I think their 404 page is broken =]
IP Voltron! Assemble!
How long until EV1-Servers buys a license to protect its customers?
That's prior art of a domain being specified. This patent is about automatically creating a subdomain for each user.
So if a human does it, it is not covered. But if a machine does it, it is covered?
Workaround: Hire somebody in a 3rd world country for 20 cents an hour to create subdomains for each new user account. The joy of globalism. Next!
Table-ized A.I.
Sorry, there is prior art.
This isn't perfect because two transpositions or other typos would screw up the logic. Please make checks out to Ian Nertia.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Anyone know if there is a patent on "unwanted email advertisements" ? I could make a killing of off that!
Attn: Accounts Payable
Your payment of $100,000 annual fee to use my patented (pending) method of remote modulation of colored phosphors or any other means of displaying colored pixels to convey information is DUE NOW. Failure to pay will result in all monitors only displaying grey scale when browsing your web site or displaying any banner ads or or other content linked to your site.
You will need to remit to Xerox your fee for black and white, and to IBM your fee for green and black.
When I was young, I had to rub sticks together to compute.
I'm patenting the use of the letter 't' in url's. I'll get paid at least once for ftp:// urls, and at least twice for http://.
I won't collect on news://, but hey, I'm not greedy.
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Maybe if I send Ev1Servers a threatning letter, they will buy a few....
hmmm....