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knightmb
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join:2003-12-01
Franklin, TN
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1 edit | Re: Here we go... said by Electro960  :If someone stole your protected idea and then used it to take away "lots" of your customers, I'm sure you would sue as well. When I say "lots", thats lots enough to make a cable company brag at the 2008 CES that they're now the 4th largest phone company in the US. Thats a major accomplishment in such little time. I agree that they shouldn't steal, but such a general idea never should have been patented to begin with. It's paramount to patenting seeing images in your web browser. Sure, you can patent a format format, say xyz for example. But don't go into lawsuit mode just because someone uses jpg files instead of yours to view images with. That's about sums up the whole VoIP fiasco we keep hearing about. They have a patent on something general, just not specific and yet they win in court due to non-technical judges and a jury that was composed of idiots in my opinion. That's why you get to pick out a jury anyway.  | |
|  bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
| Re: Here we go... 'It's paramount to patenting seeing images in your web browser'
That's a bad analogy. The method for viewing images online had to be created by someone. Just like TCP/UDP/et all had to be created by someone somewhere. An annex to existing technology is still a creation. Now coming up with the idea that people could view images on a browser is to nebulous to patent. But coming up with a way for people to do as such is not. | |
| PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| Well then, which specific claims in which specific patents should not have been allowed by the USPTO? You're saying that there is at least one claim that is a "general idea" and thus unpatentable. Care to tell us what it is; i.e, provide the exact text for it? | |
| | russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA | Re: Here we go... Several of the essential claims cover using a new type of DNS record to indicate the gateway for a phone number. Since this is the exact sort of thing DNS is designed to do, it's neither novel nor non-obvious. | |
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