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Google Patents Displaying Patents

Posted by timothy on from the on-the-internet dept.

theodp writes "Google has actually managed to patent displaying patents. The USPTO issued US Patent No. D603,866 to six Google inventors for their 'graphical user interface for display screen of a communications terminal.' Among the six inventors is the guy who introduced Google Patents. Ironically, Google Patents can't seem to find the new Google patent for Google Patents."

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  1. Uh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Didn't the Patent Office figure out and implement the displaying of patents first? Like... oh, maybe a century or two ago?

    1. Re:Uh... by ls671 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Never mind that... I sense a business opportunity...

      "Google Patents can't seem to find the new Google patent for Google Patents."

      I am going to patent the process by which Google Patents will be able to find the new Google patent for Google Patents. ;-)

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      Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
  2. O RLY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    In other news, I just sent in an anonymous patent patenting posting anonymous comments!

    1. Re:O RLY? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      My lawyers will be contacting you with a cease and desist letter, very soon...

  3. Yo dawg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yo dawg, herd u liek patents, so I put a patent on displaying patents so now you can violate my patent while ur lookin at patents.

  4. Re:No, they didn't by slacker22 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Article title should be "Google Display Patent Patent Display"

  5. Re:No, they didn't by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    How about Google Display Doesn't Display Patent Patent Display?

  6. Re:Google's strange stance by houstonbofh · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just makes me think of an old Danny D'vito quote from Other Peoples Money.
    "Of course I've got lawyers. They are like nuclear weapons: I've got em coz everyone else has. But as soon as you use them they screw everything up."

  7. Prior Art by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Jeff Bezos already has a patent on patenting patents.

  8. Oblig... by Cryacin · · Score: 5, Funny

    "It's a coffee table book... about coffee tables!!!"

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  9. Re:No, they didn't by martin-boundary · · Score: 3, Funny

         They got a design patent.

    Oh, so then it's more like this?

    P a a a a a a a a a a tent
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