Microsoft Granted Pizza Delivery Patent
from the this-is-patentable? dept
theodp writes "Thanks to Microsoft, just ordering a pizza can now constitute patent infringement. Microsoft, who's been publicly whining about low-quality patents, was granted a patent Tuesday for a Method and system for providing service listings in electronic yellow pages, which grants it a 17-year exclusive right to the process of including pizza joints not physically located in a search area in search results if they'll deliver a large pepperoni-with-extra-cheese within the search area. "
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and? by gates on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 8:00pm
patents are products like everything else...
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Grrr by Anonymous Coward on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 8:26pm
It pisses me off when people make headlines like that. The headline implies that only Microsoft can deliver pizzas now and then the actual text says something completely different that has less than 1% chance of actually affecting me.
Please try integrity instead of sensationalism.
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PizzaCono Advert by TechNoFear on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 8:46pm
LOL!
Read the ad for 'PizzaCono' (pizza in a cone you can eat with one hand...")
I think the people who named this should have checked what 'cono' means in Spanish...
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=co%F1o
Think about it.....
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Re: PizzaCono Advert by cono_luver on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 9:33pm
lol, thats is great, i like the comments about the cono on UD. They are great!!!
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Re: Grrr by Brian Woods on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 9:45pm
Dude, they are doing this to piss off Google and other search engines that actually WORK! This will effect you in more ways than you realize.
First it’s pizza, then its phone service, then it’s bloody DMV records.
It's not "sensationalism", its "desensitization".
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Re: Grrr by Anonymous Coward on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 9:47pm
Someone has a sense of humor... even if it is mocking "The System"... and yes, it is.
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Again... by Microsoft Hater on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 10:04pm
It's all part of Bill Gates' elaborate scheme to slowly take over the world. Microsoft already runs on like 95% of the worlds computers, what more can they possible want?!?!
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Man.... by Starvingsmith on Dec 7th, 2005 @ 10:09pm
what a bunch of jerks. Google needs to let them and AOL have each other.
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Re: Grrr by Anonymous Coward on Dec 8th, 2005 @ 12:19am
Yeah, I like to get the whole story by just scanning the headlines instead of actually reading the articles. How dare they!
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No Subject Given by Anonymous Coward on Dec 8th, 2005 @ 6:07am
I read the patent and aside from all the legalese garb, I am still at a loss. What did they invent? Nothing, to me it simply sounds like they are just adding information to a database to include regional businesses. Of course their logic is flawed, because their resoning assumes that all busineses would want to be listed on the net. I am sure that some of the mobile plumbers could care less about this. We all know that word of mouth sells better than anything else.
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Re: No Subject Given by Spunky on Dec 8th, 2005 @ 6:23am
Does it? I thought mass produced, heavily advertised crap sold best.
Guess I was mistaken...
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Sun was doing this in Mt. View 20 years ago by pizza squirrel on Dec 9th, 2005 @ 3:45pm
The local food outlets had order systems, and modems printing out orders at least in 1985 or so, and there was a demo system that would find a pizza joint based on various things, by doing a spiral search till it hit a match in the enclosed area nearly that long.
Obvious and done, so why not patent it. that seems to be what the USPTO does these days. Useless till someone with real power gets hit by one of these silly patents and stops this somehow.
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I guess I am in for a fight Or I made a lot of $$$ by Adam Reiser on Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:42pm
we have been providing pizza zip code search online since Oct 12 1999 See web archive below http://web.archive.org/web/19991012185003/http://pizza.net/ Does anybody know a good patent attorney ?
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a patent on pizza yellow pages search for pizza re by Adam Reiser on Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:46pm
We have been providing online pizza searchs since October 1999
See web archive
http://web.archive.org/web/19991012185003/http://pizza.net/
I guess we either are out of business or made a lot of money today ?????
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Sun was doing this in Mt. View 20 years ago by Adam Reiser on Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:56pm
we have been providing pizza searchs since oct 1999
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Re: PizzaCono Advert by Adam Reiser on Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:57pm
can you guys spread the word
we have been doing this since oct 1999
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Re: Grrr by Adam Reiser on Dec 12th, 2005 @ 5:59pm
I guess us doing this online since oct 1999 does not matter at all.
Please Visit
Web Archive below
http://web.archive.org/web/19991012185003/http://pizza.net/
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wtf by Nathan on Nov 5th, 2006 @ 4:36pm
I was hoping for a windows live delivery or something.
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