PTO Rejects Instant Live Patent

Jivecat writes "Instant Live, a service of the concert promotion company Live Nation, makes recordings of live concerts that are rapidly burned onto CDs to be sold to the audience before they leave the venue. It's a nice service for fans, but Live Nation holds the patent for a technology that places markers between songs so they can be written as separate tracks rather than one big track — in effect giving them a monopoly on in-concert recordings. Now, thanks to the efforts of the EFF and a patent attorney, who found prior work of similar technology, the U.S. Patent Office has revoked Live Nation's patent. This is good news for those who consider Live Nation to be the Evil Empire when it comes to concert promotion."

Comments

Re:The end of the story

[Ecuador]

Nope you cannot do that. Otherwise:

1. Create/Invent something good
2. Convince people to use it, since it is a free/not patented alternative
3. Patent it when it has a decent adoption.
4. Profit!

So, in the real world there is no "3" in these profit schemes ;)