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   Why not?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 3:37pm

   
   

   If you thought that the Supreme Court's Teleflex decision would have the Patent Office be a little more careful about awarding really obvious patents, apparently you'd be wrong.

   Why should anyone at the patent office care if they issue bogus patents? It's not like any downside to it for them if they do. As I understand it, patent examiners even have legal protection from ever being sued for approving bogus patents. I wish I enjoyed such blanket immunity for my actions.

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   Ebay sued for "Buy it Now"?!

   

   What?, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 4:04pm

   
   

   I'd like to see a column on this please:
   
   http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19195883/
   
   I don't understand how you can patent the "Buy it Now" feature. This is such garbage.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 4:11pm

   
   

   I just patented a search for "donkey porn"
   
   Start sending me checks Mike!

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   Re: Why not?

   

   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 5:03pm

   
   

   get a government job then

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   Re: Ebay sued for "Buy it Now"?!

   

   Joe Smith, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 5:13pm

   
   

   I think if you search the web, you will find lots of discussion of the eBay case. You should know that the case went to trial, eBay lost and now while MercExchange is in Federal Court trying to shut part of eBay down, the US Patent Office is working on cancelling the patent. Unfortunately for eBay, the law says that the patent is valid until the final appeal of any Patent Office cancellation decision. This is the same position that RIM found itself in last year and because that Judge made it clear he was not going to delay giving an injunction RIM wound up paying $612.5 Million for patents the Patent Office had said were invalid.

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   Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 5:35pm

   
   

   I'm patenting the search for "google". Yes I know this post is a waste of energy.

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   Re: Ebay sued for "Buy it Now"?!

   

   Mike (profile), Jun 12th, 2007 @ 5:39pm

   
   

   I'd like to see a column on this please: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19195883/
   
   We've covered that case in plenty of detail. This is nothing new right now. Just waiting for the decision. Once that comes out, we'll see if it's worth commenting on.

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   My billion dollar plan!

   

   LandofIdiots, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 5:44pm

   
   

   I think I'll patent the circle! Everything made that is round will owe me $$! All those tires out there on cars, my idea! LOL
   
   Sometimes I fear for the species...

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   I'll Be Rich!

   

   Charles Griswold, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 5:47pm

   
   

   I'm gonna patent the process of patent trolling. I'll sue all of the patent trolls and be filthy stinkin' rich!

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    Re: I'll Be Rich!

    

    Joe Smith, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 6:22pm

    
    

    I'm gonna patent the process of patent trolling.
    
    Edward Teach had prior art...

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    My search patent

    

    Pimp, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 7:04pm

    
    

    Be warned, I have filed a patent for location searching of my ho houses and "deluxe" massage parlors. Bring on your $$$.

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    Re: My billion dollar plan!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 7:23pm

    
    

    I think someone in Australia already patented the wheel.

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    Re: Re: My billion dollar plan!

    

    PhysicsGuy, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 7:40pm

    
    

    actually, i just filed a patent for a "torque driven cylindrical object attached, and configured with any number of objects, to any kind of moving, holding, or carrying device in which the coefficient of friction between said device and any surface area is great enough in which the rotational force acting against the friction causes the moving, holding, or carrying to device to undergo rectilinear displacement."

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    Re: Re: Re: My billion dollar plan!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 7:58pm

    
    

    Sounds like you filed for something similar to my already patented hexagonal rotational surface compression device.

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    Re: Re: Re: Re: My billion dollar plan!

    

    Joe Smith, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 10:40pm

    
    

    Sounds like you filed for something similar to my already patented hexagonal rotational surface compression device.
    
    You'll probably get him under the doctrine of equivalents.

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    Re: Re: Re: My billion dollar plan!

    

    Charles Griswold, Jun 12th, 2007 @ 10:58pm

    
    

    I've patented "a rapid, persistent exothermic oxidation of a combustible substance that releases heat and light and is accompanied by flame and sometimes smoke".

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    And for my next patent,

    

    Ajax 4Hire, Jun 13th, 2007 @ 6:42am

    
    

    searching the drawers for a clean pair of underwear!

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    Hope for people with bad google records

    

    random lurker, Jun 13th, 2007 @ 8:29am

    
    

    Now they can just patent searches for their names and sue prospective employers as needed. What a great system.

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    o_O

    

    GoblinJuice, Jun 13th, 2007 @ 2:43pm

    
    

    Patent system broken.
    
    It seems like there's another USPTO story every day.
    
    My head hurts.
    
    So, who gets to play savior in this techmelodrama?

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