URLs Patented, Domain Registrars Sued 650
theodp writes "A newly formed company is suing Network Solutions and Register.com for infringing on its e-mail and domain naming patent, which covers assigning each member of a group a URL of the form 'name.subdomain.domain' and an e-mail address of the form 'name@subdomain.domain.'"
Stop the World i wana get off (Score:4, Funny)
Patent the patent (Score:5, Funny)
[sigh]
Getting in early. (Score:5, Funny)
Dave
Oh. C'mon! (Score:3, Funny)
They're too late! (Score:5, Funny)
Oh yeah, and CmdrTaco owes me $0.10 every time he says "CmdrTaco". And $0.50 every time the name "slashdot" appears.
SCO (Score:2, Funny)
SCO (Score:3, Funny)
Darl would be proud!
Fight on, brave righteous patent warriors!
'Bout bloody time! (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Slightly funnier take (Score:5, Funny)
Reminds me of an apropos joke:
What's the difference between a catfish and a lawyer?
One is a scum suking bottom dweller, and the other is a fish.
Thank you
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India patents zero and binary (Score:4, Funny)
Unless all computers in the world switch to Roman numerals soon, India will become the world's wealthiest nation soon!
It's the end of the world as we know it... (Score:5, Funny)
Seriously, old fat women that go to Wal-Mart and fall on the wet floor have made their way to IT.
Just they are now heads of companies, heads that somehow rocketed up the company's ass so far that they cannot see reality.
*sigh*
STEEEEMPY, YOU EEEDIOT
Re:Oh. C'mon! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Slightly funnier take (Score:5, Funny)
G 'n R (Score:5, Funny)
G'nR ?? I thought they broke up when Slash went solo.
Take me down
To the paradise city
Where the grass is green
And the girls are pretty
Let slip the shysters of war! (Score:2, Funny)
What's next...lawsuits claiming infringement on the I.P. rights of the air we're breathing? Jupiter's own Ganymede is going to sue our Moon, claiming that it was first with the "orbiting satellite" patent? Why don't I slap my own brand-name sticker on the friggen _neutron_?
Right... (Score:4, Funny)
You: Hussein wouldn't have any affiliation with Microsoft would it???
Someone: Hitler was one of the most evil men alive.
You: Hmm. Hitler wouldn't have any affiliation with Microsoft would it???
So I guess what I'm saying here is that you are truly a nerd, my man. A bit of a kook in that you seem to think MS is out to get you, but nerdly none the less. I salute you.
Re:Stop the World i wana get off (Score:5, Funny)
I'm sorry, but "Beam me up" is a Trademark of Star Trek Enterprises, Inc. For your unauthorised use of this phrase, you owe us a Darl McBridely sum of $699.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Star Trek Enterprises, Inc. Legal Dept.
Re:Prior Art Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Damn, and this whole Slashdot thing starting on Nov 24th. We're hosed!!
End Sarcasm.
Re:Alphabet (Score:3, Funny)
'alphanumeric symbols combined to create grammatical constructs on the internet'
will probably be OK.
Future entrepreneurs, this may come in handy: (Score:4, Funny)
The Prior-Art-O-Matic [thesurrealist.co.uk]
I just filed a new patent (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Suing is evidently a business model (Score:3, Funny)
You must be European. In the US the doctrine (for the right, at least) is "personal responsibility", which basically means the victim is always at fault.
Re:'Bout bloody time! (Score:5, Funny)
You forgot to include the phrases "a system for implementing" and "on a computer."
a system for implementing the symbolic representation of language as phonetically derived characters on a computer
See, much better! Now watch the royalties roll in. BTW, I own the patent on this method, so you should just endorse those royalty checks over to me....
Cheers,
IT
Re:Not as bad as SCO. (Score:3, Funny)
They name countries after fridge leftovers? Is there a Slimistan? Rottovia? Burntoastan? Meltedicecreamatia? Drippingpizzanica? Beercannia?
SCO called... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:A date even funnier: November 23 1999!! (Score:3, Funny)
Ya know Snoop sez... (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Patent the patent (Score:4, Funny)
i'm going to patent the idea that a business plan can be suing people who break alleged patents. then sue all the companies that sue companies for break patents because it breaks my patent.
or something like that.
Already patented... (Score:3, Funny)
Tm
I NIHIL I I NIHIL I NIHIL (Score:3, Funny)
DEFECTVS SEGMENTATIONIS
Svre, i can manage that. Lvcky that I, as one, live in Italy
Once we've settled the prior art dispvte vvith the Greeks (damn their alphas and betas, by Jove, vve'll have to invade them again), ovr nation shall rise again!
All your ascii are belong to vs.
Re:Slightly funnier take (Score:2, Funny)
What's the difference between a dead snake on the road and a dead lawyer on the road?
The dead snake has skid marks in front of it.
IAAL (Score:1, Funny)
I love this country!
Re:Stop the World i wana get off (Score:5, Funny)
You SCO bastards, you killed my son. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!
Re:Frothing at the mouth (Score:2, Funny)
Re:proper link (Score:1, Funny)
Bad Patent Penalties (Score:3, Funny)
The only thing(s) the patent examiner may use as a shield are the materials he gathered together that he can demonstrate are in support the patent, or the bodies of the person or persons who submitted the patent in the first place. The attendence of those persons is mandatory.
The galery has one half of one hour to act as they see fit... stones varing in size from golf-ball to basketball will be amply provided by the FTC.
Re:Stop the World i wana get off (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stop the World i wana get off (Score:2, Funny)
One of those prestigious, non-accredited colleges you get spam from so often, of course.
Ok, now you gonna get it! (Score:3, Funny)
All your machinery are belong to me!
Wishing for USA copyright (Score:2, Funny)
It's clear to me that this patent helps "stimulate the inventive genius" and makes it possible for companies to do do research that would never be done without the patent-law, thus helping the community at large.
Re:Slightly funnier take (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stop the World i wana get off (Score:2, Funny)
Thank you for your cooperation.
South Park Enterprises, Inc. Legal Dept.
FAO the Patent Office (Score:2, Funny)
I have been reading with interest the latest (as in the last year or so) patents that you have been granting. I am suprised at your responses and view many having prior art.
I believe that you have a serious problem with your "prior-art" database. I think you should get onto your DBA to sort out why when I enter "URL" in the search field it returns "0 results found."
Karem
Re:Patent the patent (Score:3, Funny)
I hope the originator patented the convention of attaching this joke to every patent story.