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Amazon Awarded Cookie Patent
theodp writes "On Tuesday, the USPTO granted Amazon.com a patent for the Use of browser cookies to store structured data, which covers the storing of data structures and non-character data within browser cookies. In a February SEC filing (pdf), Amazon reiterated that they expect that they may license certain patents to third parties in the future."
I wanted to implement a cookie-driven Web site for a long time, but was clueless as for who I had to pay for using the technology.
Now I can finally download and install HTTP Cookie Library and send my license check to Amazon.
I think I'll go and patent a type of apple tree that grows apples.
Fortune Cookies with things in addition to fortunes with them.
However, I am going to patent the idea of storing non-obvious information in digital images for use in computer network transactions.
I don't know man, Cheech and Chong have been putting some pretty wild shit in their cookies for decades!
Geez again? TIMING you idiots April fool starts on the 1st of april. Not on 31st of march. Geez. Is it that hard to read a calendar? And a good april fools joke is funny because people are tricked into thinking something that clearly couldn't be true. USPTO passing a silly patent does not qualify.
What kind of insect could possibly not see the bloody obviousness off this one. Use a cookie to store data. Well fucking duh. What next? Patent the use of an engine to power something? A trunk to carry luggage? A shovel to dig with? Outsourcing is bad enough but hiring lower lifeforms goes to far!
This story only goes to show patent reform is impossible. Nothing will help here anymore but the old "put them against the wall" at the revolution. Going to be really crowded too. What will all the lawyers, ceo's, outsources, alcohol free beer inventors and people who talk in caps on the web.
Anyone else find it slightly odd that all the idiot patent stories come from america? Wonder why the USPTO is unable to hire any smart people. Is the USPTO banned from hiring non-americans?
Come on you weren't expecting any serious response were you? Feeble jokes for a feeble joke of an institution.
MMO Quests are like orgasms:
You may solo them, I prefer them in a group.
You know, the US Patent Office's website uses cookies that would violate this patent.
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"All hail the glory of the Hypnotoad."
I shall patent the method of respiration, and all shall pay me a $.07 license fee with every breath they take!!
Clever, but can be taken further. How about getting a patent on every move you make, every bond you break and every step you take?
Although, somehow I sense that there's a prior art somewhere...