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Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests

175 点作者 glitcher超过 1 年前

9 条评论

AlbertCory超过 1 年前
Just wait another year and a half, and then you&#x27;re free:<p>2025-08-10 Adjusted expiration<p>No one&#x27;s bothered to invest the $500,000 or so for an IPR to destroy this patent, which should be easy. Just adding the words &quot;on a computer&quot; to a common activity does not make it patentable.
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Flux159超过 1 年前
So how would someone go through the process of invalidating patents like this? I assume that there&#x27;s no easy or cheap way otherwise the eff would have already done it.<p>Another post mentions spending $500k for an IPR to invalidate - would that be the only way, limiting it to only well funded startups or larger established companies?
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jacobgorm超过 1 年前
Friends of mine ran a site called Hotpeople.dk from around 2002 that seems like it would be prior art, see <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ekstrabladet.dk&#x2F;nyheder&#x2F;samfund&#x2F;article4805511.ece" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ekstrabladet.dk&#x2F;nyheder&#x2F;samfund&#x2F;article4805511.ece</a> .
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yieldcrv超过 1 年前
okay since these arent going to to away, lets try something else:<p>one stop gap solution would be making it more streamlined and standardized to make a license<p>these are antagonistic tolls because the conditions are onerous<p>you do something ambitious and lucrative, patent owner comes out of the woodwork and says “cease doing that”, “pay me this toll” or “cease doing that and pay me this toll” or “pay me this toll and continue doing that”<p>and you’re like “no, thats ridiculous, have fun in court” and then they go have fun in court and you freak out<p>its a state sanctioned monopoly, the state should standardize how the licensing is done. a model uniform patent license, almost like an insurance model that businesses pay into maybe even from existing fees, where patent holders file claims to that insurance pool
siliconc0w超过 1 年前
Shown HN: I made a tool to help visualize patent claims - here is the patent in question <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;recurveip.com&#x2F;claims&#x2F;8655715" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;recurveip.com&#x2F;claims&#x2F;8655715</a><p>(tool is still WIP, if you&#x27;re interested I would love to get your thoughts)
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rpigab超过 1 年前
The Fine Bros youtube channel tried to patent reaction videos.
m3kw9超过 1 年前
What about the idiots that allowed this patent?
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zw123456超过 1 年前
Dear eff.org, I am informing you that you are in violation of intellectual property laws by having a contest for &quot;The Stupidest Patent of the Month&quot; you are infringing on the property rights covered by patent No. 8,655,715 which covers all such contests.
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GuB-42超过 1 年前
The EFF and similar organizations often voice their opposition against the patent system.<p>But why couldn&#x27;t the EFF use the flaws of the patent system to their advantage.<p>They could file all kinds of patents for things they oppose. DRM schemes, surveillance and tracking tech, dark patterns, etc... And then patent troll companies that use these techniques.<p>Win&#x2F;win. If they lose their lawsuit, it creates a precedent against patent trolls. If they win, that&#x27;s one less of the things they are against.
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