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A man patented Uber[Taxi] 29 years ago
- MarkPNeyer 15y agoUber would not be in violation of this patent. It is based upon the concept of drivers offering rides, which is not how Uber works. Disclosure: I am not a Lawyer, I work for Uber, and I have been known to hate on software patents.
- adestefan 15y agoIt doesn't matter since the patent expired in 2001.
- olitebra 15y agoWhat I have tried to say with this post is that it is execution that matters - maybe this patent had a brilliant idea in it, but it was never implemented.
- jerf 15y agoTech matters too; the necessary IT infrastructure to pull this off was theoretically technologically feasible, but not economically feasible. You couldn't have run a profitable service that could have serviced those costs until you were very, very large already.
- idonthack 15y agoNot surprising. It isn't a difficult concept.
- HanPhamMN 15y agoI am actually a lawyer based in Minnesota. Prepare for lawsuits bitches!
- Aloisius 15y agoI'm shocked, just shocked that at the height of demand-responsive transportation system research that someone would have patented one!