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I have a BS patent. It's a patent on the "conceptual system" (note: not a software patent) of using a Mechwarrior/Sims/Diablo style character builder interface
by yummyfajitas 13y ago
I have a BS patent. It's a patent on the "conceptual system" (note: not a software patent) of using a Mechwarrior/Sims/Diablo style character builder interface plus standard search engine techniques to build a fashion search engine. I refused to sign it but somehow the patent was granted anyway.
Also included in the patent is the concept of paying humans to use the system to do searches for you (i.e., email a photo of shoes you like, someone will google it for you).
http://www.google.com/patents/US20130166591 http://www.google.com/patents/US20130166591
If a patent is granted in spite of being obviously derivative to the point that the inventor refuses to sign it, something is broken.
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- novaleaf 13y agoCome on, if you went through the process, you should know that patents (for right or wrong) can be derivative, as long as they apply the existing ideas to new/novel situations. The granting of your patent doesn't mean you'd be able to successfully sue someone for paid searches, however you would have stronger grounds if they were executing paid searches on a fashion search engine with a character builder interface.
- pwg 13y agoActually, what you have is a "patent application". It is not yet a patent, although according to the Patent Offices public pair system (http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair http://portal.uspto.gov/pair/PublicPair) it has had a "Non Final Action Mailed" on 2014-01-14. So it is being examined. Looking at the rejection on the pair system, all the claims of the application have been rejected during this go-round.
- axman6 13y agoWhat? Someone on hackernews who actually understands the patent system enough to know what's actually going on? This is unheard of!