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USPTO Rejects SBC Browser Patent

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the seen-coming dept.

theodp writes "Remember that dicey 1996 SBC Structured Document Browser patent that Slashdot readers immediately called BS on back in 2003? Two-and-a-half years later, a USPTO Director-ordered reexam reached the same conclusion, and a final rejection was quietly issued last month."

3 of 124 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Hooray for the Indians! by mpe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Reviewed by Sanjiv D. Shah...it looks like s/he knows what s/he is doing.

    But when are Penn and Teller going to review the USPO? There's probably enough material there to keep them going for a whole series.

  2. What I find especially amusing about this one... by keyslammer · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... is that the patent office page linked to would itself seem to be in violation of this patent!

  3. New /. icon suggestion: Hell freezing over by Khelder · · Score: 4, Interesting

    In the wake of the Apple and Intel cooperation and now the USPTO actually denying/rescinding/rejecting a patent, I think it's clear that slashdot needs a new logo. Something representing hell freezing over, or perhaps pigs flying...