[Cialug] Patent news, might be of some interest

[Kenneth Younger]

>From what I can tell, the general mentality at Google is that patents are
annoying. They seem to get these things for defensive purposes only - so
that when Apple, who does like patents very much, sues them they have
something to counter-sue with.

Kind of like mutually assured destruction. Just without the nuclear fallout
:)

On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:44 PM, William Christensen <wirewc at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello everyone, I just got an interesting email that might be of interest
> to a few people in webdev.
> /*
> Recently got this from a friend.
>
> With Harry Houdini doodle, Google has a curious new patent up its sleeve
>
> Today's Harry Houdini logo is the first to appear after Google
> received a very interesting patent. The "Google doodle" – which shall
> forever after be known as the 'System and Method For Enticing Users To
> A Web Site' – has been approved by the US patent office.
>
>
> http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2011/0324/With-Harry-Houdini-doodle-Google-has-a-curious-new-patent-up-its-sleeve
>
>
> http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7%2C912%2C915.PN.&OS=PN%2F7%2C912%2C915&RS=PN%2F7%2C912%2C915
> */
>
> -Will
>
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