More Patent Insanity:
All your Cookies belong to Us. Amazon granted Patent for Browser Cookies:
3-31-2004 Amazon Patents Cookies
3-30-2004 Company claims patent over online testing, wants thousands of Universities to pay thousands in Royalties:
From the issue dated March 26, 2004
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i29/29a03101.htm>
3-6-2004 U.S. Patent Office reverses on Eolas Plug-In Patent Grant, Microsoft Off Hook For 500 Million dollars
2-9-2004 Small California Company Granted Patent For Streaming Video Takes Websites To Court
A federal court in California on Friday began the onerous task of determining whether a small high-tech firm owns the patents on how most video and audio is sent over the Internet.
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware on Friday held the first of what could be several hearings to determine if Acacia owns broad video- and audio-streaming patents.
Small San Diego Company says Patent for Onboard CPU Clock Speed Control belongs to them, they have filed suit aginst 5 PC builders with Intel based CPU's, Intel files Countersuit to try and help it's customers:
2-7-2004 Pentium PC Vendors Face Chip Patent Suit
Patriot Scientific, a small, San Diego-based seller of embedded microprocessors for automotive and scientific applications, is suing Sony, Fujitu, Matsushita, Toshiba, and NEC, alleging infringement of a Patriot patent for what it calls "fundamental microprocessor technology."
That technology resides in Intel's Pentium microprocessor. Patriot is targeting the five systems vendors because they ship desktops and laptops equipped with the Intel chip. The patent at issue involves on-chip clocking technology.
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Individual files for Patent that he invented the Internet. Patent Office grants Patent December 30, 2003, He files Lawsuit against Domain Companies and demands names stop being given out:
1-19-2004 Patent lawyer puts claim to entire Internet
US patent 6,671,714 - "Method, apparatus and business system for online communications with online and offline recipients" - is owned by Frank Weyer and Troy Javaher, both of Beverly Hills in California, was filed in November 1999 and approved on 30 December 2003.
The Net's two biggest registrars of domain names are being sued for infringing an email and domain name patent granted last month.
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in California, claims Network Solutions and Register.com are liable for selling, specifically, .name domains. It claims undisclosed monetary damages and an injunction against the sale of any more domains.
Whoever reviewed the case clearly has no idea of how the Internet works and so was misled by cleverly constructed semantics.
Does this patent give two Californians the right to dictate what you are allowed to do with your own domain? It would appear so.
Even though the patent appears to give some justification for believing so, you simply cannot connect two everyday parts of the Internet infrastructure together and claim that if such a combination exists in a certain format, you possess it.
Mr Meyer has cleverly achieved the patent by arguing one way and then representing the end effect another. But what he is in fact doing is claiming ownership over the workings of the Internet.
It is our sincere hope though that the two registrars fight the case and so set some legal precedent against the series of increasingly ridiculous patent cases that are coming out of the US.
If this case does go to court and is dismissed out of hand (as it should be) there would be a case for the company that owns .name - Global Name Registry - to sue Mr Weyer and Mr Javaher for malicious damage to its business.
This will not be the end of uncomfortable and incorrect patent claims but this is certainly one that can be squashed and so hopefully will be. And, with luck, it may even nip this patent madness in the bud.
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I reported in mid 2003 about a Patent that was granted to a local Georgian for "A cabinet with a plurity of holes with a fan to force air movement from Electronic components generating heat". Yes, an ordinary Computer PC cabinet. I haven't seen a Lawsuit from it yet but I'm sure it's coming.
12-16-2003 Optima believes most every company in the CD-burner industry may be infringing on it's Patent
A small California storage company filed a patent suit late Friday against software maker Roxio and said the dispute will likely expand to cover other hardware and software companies involved with CD-ROMs.
Optima Technology filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that several Roxio products infringe on Optima's patent for a "recordable CD-ROM accessing system."
United States Patent 5,666,531 Martin September 9, 1997
All your Cookies belong to Us. Amazon granted Patent for Browser Cookies:
3-31-2004 Amazon Patents Cookies
3-30-2004 Company claims patent over online testing, wants thousands of Universities to pay thousands in Royalties:
From the issue dated March 26, 2004
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v50/i29/29a03101.htm>
3-6-2004 U.S. Patent Office reverses on Eolas Plug-In Patent Grant, Microsoft Off Hook For 500 Million dollars
2-9-2004 Small California Company Granted Patent For Streaming Video Takes Websites To Court
A federal court in California on Friday began the onerous task of determining whether a small high-tech firm owns the patents on how most video and audio is sent over the Internet.
U.S. District Court Judge James Ware on Friday held the first of what could be several hearings to determine if Acacia owns broad video- and audio-streaming patents.
Small San Diego Company says Patent for Onboard CPU Clock Speed Control belongs to them, they have filed suit aginst 5 PC builders with Intel based CPU's, Intel files Countersuit to try and help it's customers:
2-7-2004 Pentium PC Vendors Face Chip Patent Suit
Patriot Scientific, a small, San Diego-based seller of embedded microprocessors for automotive and scientific applications, is suing Sony, Fujitu, Matsushita, Toshiba, and NEC, alleging infringement of a Patriot patent for what it calls "fundamental microprocessor technology."
That technology resides in Intel's Pentium microprocessor. Patriot is targeting the five systems vendors because they ship desktops and laptops equipped with the Intel chip. The patent at issue involves on-chip clocking technology.
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Individual files for Patent that he invented the Internet. Patent Office grants Patent December 30, 2003, He files Lawsuit against Domain Companies and demands names stop being given out:
1-19-2004 Patent lawyer puts claim to entire Internet
US patent 6,671,714 - "Method, apparatus and business system for online communications with online and offline recipients" - is owned by Frank Weyer and Troy Javaher, both of Beverly Hills in California, was filed in November 1999 and approved on 30 December 2003.
The Net's two biggest registrars of domain names are being sued for infringing an email and domain name patent granted last month.
The lawsuit, filed yesterday in California, claims Network Solutions and Register.com are liable for selling, specifically, .name domains. It claims undisclosed monetary damages and an injunction against the sale of any more domains.
Whoever reviewed the case clearly has no idea of how the Internet works and so was misled by cleverly constructed semantics.
Does this patent give two Californians the right to dictate what you are allowed to do with your own domain? It would appear so.
Even though the patent appears to give some justification for believing so, you simply cannot connect two everyday parts of the Internet infrastructure together and claim that if such a combination exists in a certain format, you possess it.
Mr Meyer has cleverly achieved the patent by arguing one way and then representing the end effect another. But what he is in fact doing is claiming ownership over the workings of the Internet.
It is our sincere hope though that the two registrars fight the case and so set some legal precedent against the series of increasingly ridiculous patent cases that are coming out of the US.
If this case does go to court and is dismissed out of hand (as it should be) there would be a case for the company that owns .name - Global Name Registry - to sue Mr Weyer and Mr Javaher for malicious damage to its business.
This will not be the end of uncomfortable and incorrect patent claims but this is certainly one that can be squashed and so hopefully will be. And, with luck, it may even nip this patent madness in the bud.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I reported in mid 2003 about a Patent that was granted to a local Georgian for "A cabinet with a plurity of holes with a fan to force air movement from Electronic components generating heat". Yes, an ordinary Computer PC cabinet. I haven't seen a Lawsuit from it yet but I'm sure it's coming.
12-16-2003 Optima believes most every company in the CD-burner industry may be infringing on it's Patent
A small California storage company filed a patent suit late Friday against software maker Roxio and said the dispute will likely expand to cover other hardware and software companies involved with CD-ROMs.
Optima Technology filed the suit in U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, claiming that several Roxio products infringe on Optima's patent for a "recordable CD-ROM accessing system."
United States Patent 5,666,531 Martin September 9, 1997