Candidates Sued By Patent Troll For Using Facebook

WrongSizeGlass writes "Ars is reporting that the 'inventor' of the concept of 'providing individual online presences for each of a plurality of members of a group of members,' claims that four million Facebook business account holders, including at least three major presidential candidates, are guilty of infringing his patent. He's suing Facebook for infringing on his patent as well as the three candidates. A Patent Office examiner rejected the patent claims, but the rejections have been appealed."

I'll settle

[PPH]

My royalty payment is in an envelope, just behind my SUV [slashdot.org].

Re:Hurray!

[V-similitude]

Except it's not really a software patent, is it? It's really just an idiotic patent, and looks like our system actually managed to catch it this time. So the summary really should read: "Idiot who filed idiotic patent can't handle rejection."

rejections appeals?

[j00r0m4nc3r]

I tried that with the girls in high school -- it never worked.

Re:Is this one in East Texas?

[Ethanol-fueled]

And yet, for some reason, all of you assholes still want to move here. Don't. There's no jobs, especially not high-tech ones. There's no scenery. The beaches don't even have waves like they do at the Atlantic. All that Hollywood shit is fake. We don't have good marijuana. All we have are ghettos and military bases, and who wants to live in a military state? Oh, and gays. California accepts the gays because it is a state nobody wants to move to. Everything is also really expensive and totally not worth it.

Nope, don't move here. I can't even escape to Arizona because California took my car as tax money.

Re:Hurray!

[khallow]

It seems more like this guy is fraking the system over to allow him the freedom to go out and make a difference. You know, if I had a way to pick the pockets of fat cats while giving me the time to spend volunteering in third world countries or doing explorative expeditions - I just might.

That's a rather ugly parasite, if true. I see it as doing a lot of harm in order to practice token charity. Isn't the eighth circle of Hell reserved for that crap?

Re:Hurray!

[indeterminator]

WE SOFTWARE NOT REAL MOST STUPID INNOVATION

A-ha! I found your secret code. I think you're trying to say we are some sort of software simulation...

Re:Hurray!

[Ihmhi]

Isn't the eighth circle of Hell reserved for that crap?

No, that would be for the dev teams of Windows ME and Vista.