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Am I the only one that's concerned that Uber are trying to patent Supply & Demand? https://www.google.com/patents/US20130246207 https://www.google.com/patents/
by jackgavigan 11y ago
Am I the only one that's concerned that Uber are trying to patent Supply & Demand?
https://www.google.com/patents/US20130246207 https://www.google.com/patents/US20130246207
- rayiner 11y agoClaim 1 is breathtakingly broad and is susceptible to an Alice challenge.
- Silhouette 11y agoHaving had some experience recently of applying for patents, it's disappointing to see how much trouble we have to go to in order to justify things like originality and inventive steps to the various patent authorities, and then to see that something like this is apparently still working its way through the process several years after its original filing. I appreciate that such systems have to be seen to be fair, and challenging claims has to be done based on some objective standard and proper documentary evidence. Still, if your first claim has pretty much an entire field with many years of history serving as prior art, you'd think at some point someone would just say "no".
- mfringel 11y agoIt's not 'supply and demand'; it's centrally-planned dynamic pricing that just happens to be done by a private entity.
- austenallred 11y agoThe patent is also very specific about how this is done. Sure, some of the terms are broad: That's just how patents work nowadays. When we filed a patent it was mostly to protect ourselves against other people suing us for violating their patents. The entire system is fundamentally broken.
- thwarted 11y agoThe examiner did cite Adam Smith "Wealth of Nations". It needs a citation for centralized planning too.
- riskneural 11y agoDoesn't the energy market already react exactly the same way? When the price gets above the cost of production for method x, produce for method x, increasing the supply.