Kickstarter: 3 Reasons to Raise Funds Here FIRST.

Tyler Balliet · President/Founder at The Second Glass
Kickstarter should run a Kickstarter to buy ArtistShare and their patent. I got $50 on it.
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Steve Gleitsmann · President at Get It Mobile
Inventors pay attorneys to draft patents. Patent office uses attorneys to examine patents.
Patent holders use attorneys to enforce patents. Inventor hires attorneys to defend against patents.

And the winner is….
Reply · 11 · · 10 hours ago

John Green
"Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work".

Seriously?
Reply · 2 · · 12 hours ago

Devin Coldewey · Top Commenter
technically it's a design for a machine that prints money
Reply · 2 · · 11 hours ago

David Murphy · Top Commenter · Beverly Hills, California
We need to ABOLISH these sort of patents. #fury
Reply · 2 · · 8 hours ago

Kris Minkstein · Top Commenter · Pace
Patents + Software = Bullshiz.
Reply · 2 · · 12 hours ago

Francisco Javier Uribe Buzeta
bullshit
Reply · 2 · · 12 hours ago

Paul Farino · Lincoln, Nebraska
Kickstarter will have no problem in litigation. They can file for an "improvement patent" and redact the direct infringement. They will easily come up with clever ways to say it improves the crowd-source environment in it's niche.
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Robert Schultz · San Francisco, California
This is lame.
Reply · 1 · · 10 hours ago

David Feinberg · Producer at Fox
Well, here is how smart the guy is, he left his domain registration records wide open.

ArtistShare
12 w. 87th st
4C.
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Reply · · 2 hours ago

Russ Nelson · Research Engineer at Clarkson University
It's not dumb to be open and transparent. It's called "honesty."
Reply · · 8 minutes ago

Rob Phillips · Top Commenter · Founder at Brevidy
More reasons to abolish software patents here: http://www.usv.com/2010/01/we-need-an-independent-invention-defense-to-minimize-the-damage-of-aggressive-patent-trolls.php.
Reply · · 8 hours ago

George White · Patent Agent at G. White Patents
I took a quick look on the USPTO PAIR system at the history of the patent application that led to this patent. It went through four rounds of: the examiner searching, finding relevant references, the examiner rejecting and the applicant arguing/amending. About a dozen patents, patent applications and industry articles in total were dug up by the examiner and needed to be addressed by the applicant. To read through all of it and form an opinion as to the logic and rigor that was or wasn't applied is a several hour task (that I am not planning on doing).
Reply · · 11 hours ago

John Kirker
Time for KickStarter to acquire ArtistShare so that they can sue everyone else. ;) Reminds me of the online shopping cart being patented way back when - and the impending doom that would have all online retailers paying licensing fees and royalties to accept orders online.
Reply · · 13 hours ago

Ben Kremen · Works at Yammer
I feel like there is a campaign in here, where everyone on Techcrunch can shame this stupid company into giving up this suit. Who runs this company anyway? Who is leading it? These leaches should be made public so their neighbors and friends should see what they're doing.
Reply · · 12 hours ago

Russ Nelson · Research Engineer at Clarkson University
There is no such thing as an obvious invention anymore. All inventions are obvious once they've been invented, so restricting patents for obviousness would eliminate all patents.
Reply · · 10 minutes ago

Detrick Ali
I think I'm going to patent a method for excreting excess air from body through my arse. (Careful all you bean eaters...I'm not afraid to sue!) =/.
Reply · · 3 hours ago

Anderson Mccutcheon · Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Methods and apparatuses for financing and marketing a creative work - IT'S CALLED MONEY.

This is just sad.
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Derek L. Francisco · Syracuse
Thanks for the laugh.
Reply · · 13 hours ago

AisleFinder CPope · Top Commenter
uh oh
Reply · · 13 hours ago