Candidates Sued By Patent Troll For Using Facebook

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 28, 2012 @03:04PM from the status:-not-gonna-happen dept.

WrongSizeGlass writes "Ars is reporting that the 'inventor' of the concept of 'providing individual online presences for each of a plurality of members of a group of members,' claims that four million Facebook business account holders, including at least three major presidential candidates, are guilty of infringing his patent. He's suing Facebook for infringing on his patent as well as the three candidates. A Patent Office examiner rejected the patent claims, but the rejections have been appealed."

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Excellent! by Citizen+of+Earth · 2012-02-28 15:42 · Score: 5, Insightful

We need MORE patent trolls to beat up on the presidential candidates with completely bogus nonsense to help bring attention to the brokenness of the current system. Set up a WikiTrolls organization to sue every major politician.