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Netflix Suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement
grouchomarxist writes "Netflix is suing Blockbuster for Patent Infringement. From the article: 'Netflix holds two U.S. patents for its business methodology, which calls for subscribers to pay a monthly fee to select and rent DVDs from the company's Web site and to maintain a list of titles telling Netflix in which order to ship the films, according to the patents, which were included as exhibits in the lawsuit.
The first patent, granted in 2003, covers the method by which Netflix customers select and receive a certain number of movies at a time, and return them for more titles.
The second patent, issued on Tuesday, "covers a method for subscription-based online rental that allows subscribers to keep the DVDs they rent for as long as they wish without incurring any late fees, to obtain new DVDs without incurring additional charges and to prioritize and reprioritize their own personal dynamic queue -- of DVDs to be rented," the lawsuit said.'"
Score another one for a broken system that will let you patent everything... Can I patent breathing?
Logic is the beginning of reason, not the end of it.
I'm in the process of patenting my invention, I call it "money".
Everyone is screwed now.
Just so you know, i have a patent pending for the motion of lowering your index finger over the left mouse button whilst hovering a cursor over a clickable object in a web browser... Rebind your mice now!
http://www.screenselect.co.uk/ in the uk does the same thing.