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.
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| 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.
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| 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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