"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 05 September 2006 17:44 \__
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Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
Patents Become a 'Social' Problem
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| Social media -- photos, blogs, networks and tags -- is all about
sharing.
| But social media startups don't want to share their intellectual
| property. Instead, they're heading to the patent office.
|
| [...]
|
| There's no slowdown in sight for social media patents. In August,
| Microsoft applied for a patent on a way to allow a community of users
to
| rate content across a variety of Web sites and display contextual
| sensitive reviews.
|
| In June, it filed for a way to automatically develop profiles of people
| who play on game consoles that let them create a social community of
| gamers.
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http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3629991
This is continued extension of what's always been done by marketing
people and market research organisations. Patenting this would be
absurd, so I guess the yanks will allow it!
Reminded me of Amazon's patent of user's history (puracheses, maybe
pageviews) as a basis for a trainer/engine that makes recommendation.
Amazon
patented the librarian. Shock. Horror.
http://www.internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/3349531
<quote>
The Port Washington, N.Y.-based E-Data said it owns a patent on downloading
media from a computer to another device or object, such as CDs, DVDs and MP3
players. The patent covers a process, rather than a specific technology
method.
</quote>
There was some talk about pharmaceuticals patenting specific DNA
sequences. Who knows what would happen if you were found to be infringing
due to the fact that your DNA contains those sequences?
- Oliver
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