EFF Busts Bogus Online Testing Patent

Panaqqa writes "It's taken some time, but the EFF's Patent Busting Project is making progress. In the latest news, the USPTO has now officially rejected one of the 10 awful patents targeted, making the world safe again for administering tests over the Internet. This joins the reexamination of a patent on automated remote access of a computer over a network and the revocation of a patent on recording live performances to CD as notable successes for the EFF."

Comments

And yet Test.Com is still advertising the patent

[RyanJBlack]

It's right on their front page, and it even shows an official-looking certificate for patent number 6513042, which the USPTO has now rejected! The test.com link even describes how important their patent is and what it covers. "The Patent issued to Test.com, Inc. protects its intellectual property in the area of distributing and selling tests on the Internet and sharing revenues received for the test with the test creator."

Maybe their marketing folks haven't heard the news?

The Internets?

[Locklin]

It seems like many of these "bad" patents stem from these form applications combining some standard practice with the Internet. Anything done on paper easily transfers to the Internet because the Internet was designed that way -thats a testimate to the Internet's design, not to the bozo who thinks ordering pizza over the "tubes" is genius.