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That list of patents reads like an Onion article. Is there a joke I'm missing here?
by erichocean 11y ago
That list of patents reads like an Onion article. Is there a joke I'm missing here?
- abiox 11y ago> Is there a joke I'm missing here? other than the unmitigated absurdity that is the patent system these days?
- coldtea 11y agoDid you also read the patent's text, or just their title and high-level description?
- swhipple 11y agoEven the text of some are pretty much as expected. It seems that they have a patent on single page applications (SPAs) to-a-T [1], elaborating that an application may use mechanisms like XHR and append an identifier to the fragment portion of the URL to keep history. Even if I subscribed to the idea that this was without prior art on the web in 2009, equivalent functionality already existed in desktop applications. To claim that it is a novel invention because it now works on a web page is disheartening. It's exactly this kind of behavior--claiming new ownership based on each abstraction--that leads to restrictions in some countries on patents which can only exist in software. [1] https://www.google.com/patents/US20110055314 https://www.google.com/patents/US20110055314