Android Loses Patent Battle

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@Shanmuga Subramanian
"System and method for reducing excess capacity for restaurants and other industries during off-peak or". I think Patents are being misused..I wonder which fool gave patents to this. A idea can be never ever patented!
@Brian Broadbent
After skimming over the patent, this case should get thrown out pretty quickly.
@Joseff Betancourt
"System and method for reducing excess capacity for restaurants and other industries during off-peak or". umm Which "system" are they referring to -- any systems? Don't you need to have a tangible product or schematic in order to patent?
@Satya Sidhartha Parija
That is US Patent law for you.Actually,there are many patents which do not meet criteria you mentioned. It is called as "Process patent"!
@Vaisakh Sudheesh
this is what happens when u bring *greedy* lawyers backed by management in to the system. with all the twisted vocabulary they are ruining it.
@Scott Neill
It keeps them off the streets, I suppose.
@Vaisakh Sudheesh
Scott Neill :)
@Ani Oko
How about patenting people using any tool that is new or helps? The law should be smarter.
@Mikita Mikado
Reading article after an article regarding those lawsuits I wonder... shouldn't US legal and patents systems get a reform?
@Dan Halford
http://www.time2dine.co.nz/ Launched in 2002. Clear example of prior art. Patent should have never been granted.
@Perry Evans
it was filed in 1999. It's not about prior art on this one, it just blatantly missed the "non-obvious" test. Some patent clerk might have thought it brilliant, but what amounts to the "computerization" of promotions described as a system won't hold up when any decent attorney gets a crack at it.
@Wojciech Durmaj
:))
@Max Hwang
Yes, this case will get thrown out, as soon as the army of lawyers in Google and Groupon can stop ROTFLTO and file the paper works.
@Mark Mckenzie
The US patent system is really broken. Prime example here.
@Balaji Viswanathan
Should software be protected by patents? It is nice to have copyrights that protects your code and designs from getting copied by others, but patents for software seems ridiculous. It is not like a manufacturing system and it is more closer to creative works like paintings and writings than a industrial system. By doing away with software patenting, we can unleash a greater scale of innovation, reduce wastage of resources and diminish the size of monopolies. In India for example software patenting was done away with in 2005 and software is protected only by copyrights. Since majority of the innovations in technology come from startups (who don't usually apply for patents) the benefit of patents in this case is highly questionable, while the pitfalls are many. The tradeoff doesn't make much sense.
@Balaji Viswanathan
Recently New zealand went through a detailed analysis on this matter and has decided to ban software patents. Its research has concluded that the benefits of patents are far less compared to the troubles. http://www.geekosystem.com/new-zealand-bans-software-patents/
@Ken Sposato
What kind of drugs are they dolling out to the people at the patent office? How did that weak vague description even get a patent?
@Nicholas Black
WTF
@Rick Kats
These guys are weak, work on some real innovation, trolls.
@Justin Baker
I couldn't agree more with you when you write "Both suits should have never been filed."
@Daniel Bernal
“System and method for reducing excess capacity for restaurants and other industries during off-peak or.” So any one who markets or advertises or refers a customer to a restaurant should be sued. Poor MHP, all that ‘irreparable harm’.. :( lol
@Jim Russo
It seems that ever since Albert Einstein left the patent office, more Bubba Einsteins were hired in replacement.
@Felix Mak
so I can file for a space travel patent, saying that I invented the idea for "letting people pay money to go to space," and then sue nasa when that happens?