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Online Communities Patented; Lawsuit Against Facebook Moves Forward
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| It's always fun to see patent system
| defenders in our comments insist that the
| patent system rarely makes mistakes in
| issuing patents, and how really bad patents
| get pushed out upon review. And yet... then
| we hear stories like the following one.
| Four guys, back in 2001 filed for a patent
| (6,519,629) on a "system for creating a
| community for users with common interests
| to interact in." Seriously. Reading through
| the patent application, I'm having trouble
| seeing how this wasn't covered by a ton of
| prior art. What in that patent does not
| apply to early BBS systems, for example?
| And, even if there really is something new
| (I can't find anything), how is putting
| together an online community not an obvious
| thing?
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100402/1625538855.shtml
Facebook Gets Sued Over âCommunityâ Patent
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| Technology patent trolling seems to have
| become a regular pasttime â something that
| is influenced proprtionally with lucrative
| potential of a patent, and which the long-
| flawed approval process at the USPTO (U.S.
| Patent & Trademark Office) abets in the
| first place. Now thereâs another
| questionable patent lawsuit, this one
| involving âonline communitiesâ, and
| naturally, Facebook is a target with its
| community of more than 400 million users.
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http://www.allfacebook.com/2010/04/facebook-gets-sued-over-community-patent/
Recent:
Google, Facebook sued on mobile notworking
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| Google and Facebook have been sued in New
| York by a company claiming to own software
| patents that put social networks on mobile
| phones.
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http://www.thinq.co.uk/news/2010/3/10/google-facebook-sued-on-mobile-notworking/
Google, Facebook Sued Over Social-Networking Patent
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| Wireless Ink Corp., which runs the Winksite
| service, claims that Facebook Mobile and
| Google Buzz are infringing a patent issued
| in October. In a complaint filed yesterday
| in federal court in Manhattan, the company
| is seeking cash compensation and a court
| order to prevent further use of its
| invention.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=acishqhFv2uc
Competitors may fight Facebook feed patent
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| Earlier this week, Scottish blogger and law
| lecturer Andres Guadamuz accused Facebook
| of aiming to protect "a trivial use of
| databases".
|
| "It seems like the software patent standard
| in the US is so low that all one needs is
| to get a clever patent attorney to attach a
| lot of mumbo jumbo to mundane database
| functions and voila, you are given a
| patent," he wrote.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/05/2838033.htm
Facebookâs ânews feedâ patent â just a legal novelty?
http://www.crikey.com.au/2010/03/04/facebooks-news-feed-patent-just-a-legal-novelty/
Google urged to free Flash
http://sms58.com/23851/google-urged-to-free-flash/
Google Wins Patent For Geo-Targeting Ads
http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/021771.html
Google Awarded Location Patent Filed Six Years Ago For Use In âAd Systemâ
http://www.mobilemarketingwatch.com/google-awarded-location-patent-filed-six-years-ago-for-use-in-ad-system-5598/
Itâs Patent Season: Google Scores Major Patent For Location-Based Advertising
http://thenextweb.com/us/2010/03/02/patent-season-google-scores-major-patent-locationbased-advertising/
Looking at Facebook's news feed patent
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| I wonder what is Facebookâs strategy here. They
| could simply be looking to stifle competitors.
| The obvious result of this is that they will
| probably attempt to get licences from some
| prominent social networks and the
| aforementioned open source projects. In the
| longer run, this could be used to become the
| only name in social networking. Not good news
| at all.
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http://www.technollama.co.uk/looking-at-facebook-news-stream-patent
Google Secures Broad Patent for Location-Based Advertising
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| That patent itself focuses on making sure
| businesses can better target their ads based on
| location information so that they can do things
| such as price arbitration (e.g. figuring out
| prices for items near you and getting the best
| deal). It also deals with the user interface
| and defining geographic areas.
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http://mashable.com/2010/03/01/google-location-advertising-patent/
Scientist Finds PageRank-Type Algorithm from the 1940s
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| Google's PageRank algorithm was developed
| in 1998. But a project to trace the history
| of such algorithms reveals an example from
| the 1940s.
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http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/24821/?a=f
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