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Somethng like this scares the hell out of me: http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/05/17/facebook-patent-photo-tagging/ http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/05/17/
by grimen 15y ago
Somethng like this scares the hell out of me:
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/05/17/facebook-patent-photo-tagging/ http://www.insidefacebook.com/2011/05/17/facebook-patent-pho...
Now I'm in Europe where this don't apply, but we actually had plans making our platform available in U.S. later on with something that has to do with tagging images - which itself is hardly any innovation (?!!)!. I mean, c'mon. We will now probably avoid that and look east instead. I'm still fascinated that they managed to get thorugh with this, almost like the 1-click-purchase that Amazon trying to paten. It's almost like a fairy tale - with no happy ending.
- Vivtek 15y agoAmazon didn't just try to patent one-click purchasing. They actually hold said patent. They don't enforce it, largely because O'Reilly found prior art that could destroy it if Amazon ever oversteps, but they do hold the patent. That's the central travesty here. Possibly if you're a patent attorney, you really do think purchasing with one click is a detailed and arcane technology the development of which is expensive enough to require a 20-year monopoly, but all that tells me is that patent attorneys are somewhat dim people who wouldn't understand productive work if it bit them in the face. Not that I have strong feelings or anything.