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Troll Patents Lists In Databases, Sues Everyone

Posted by kdawson on from the you-wish dept.

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "A Florida patent troll called Channel Intelligence is suing everyone from Lemonade to Remember the Milk for infringing on patent 6,917,941, which covers storing a wishlist in a database. Amazon and eBay are absent from the list of targets, even though they very likely store users' wishlists in a database. With any luck, perhaps one of the defendants will get to use that precedent PJ found the other day from In re Lintner, which said, '[c]laims which are broad enough to read on obvious subject matter are unpatentable even though they also read on non-obvious subject matter.'"

3 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Patent Office by mixmatch · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    It seems that they have a default accept policy on patents, and that is more a problem in my mind than the whole 'underpaid and overworked' explanation. If patents are to exist, the first rule should be 'If the idea seems obvious, it probably is. If you can think of something that already does what this patent claims to define, deny. If not, push to the back of your pile for further examination and move on the the ideas that actually seems to be innovative off the bat.'

  2. Re:First patent! by bh_doc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Santa's a bit busy fighting warcrimes charges, at the moment.

  3. Don't worry... by joshsnow · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The legal system in this country is a joke.

    Now that Karadzic has been arrested, things can only get better....