Help With Patent.... PLEASE

#1 Where did you hear that "M$ has managed to patent the fact that thier messenger tells the user when the other user is typing a message"?

Do you have a URL? There must be something more to it than that.

#2 Funny - Quake 3 has prior art if that's the case ;-)

#3 This patent had a slashdot article about 2 weeks ago IIRC.

#4 Yea I read it in a magazine.
not sure when or where to find the info on the net.

so noone wants to donate the 20g it's gonna cost to get the patent?

#5 No.

Have you talked to a patient lawyer? I am sure he or she would be more than happy to take you money, but a button is not patientable.

1 - prior art exists.
2 - a button is obvious "to one of ordinary skill"

Both of these accounts make it unpatentable.

Now there are some issues with patient people not knowing of prior art, but in this day an age I think everyone has seen a SW button.

Legal Disclaimer....
-- I am not a patient lawyer. I don't even play one on TV. Search Patient sites or talk to a real lawyer. Also I am only speaking to US Patients. Not sure what other countries do.

#6 ..
yea well the us will patent anything for billy..
I dont think you get the jest of it all.


explain how they are the first of all thier patents.

Specifically this one mentioned here.

it has been done before in other software.
did they somehow prove thier msn had it before them?

ordinary skill can also explain thier system of detecting user input for window chat's..
seems pretty trivial to me.

Patent's make me sick.
M$ makes me sick buying up all the ip.

you give me the 20k to get this done.
and I wont add ya to the make me sick list.

#7 I'm sorry, Badguy, but I already have the Business Process patent on openly whining in forums to obtain money. ;-)

(Whole damned patent system ticks me off too.)

#8 Good luck with your quest for money.

See:
http://news.com.com/2100-1023-978234.html?tag=nl
and
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-5088150.html
for news on mircrosoft patent noted above as well as news on AOL Instant messaging Patent, Netscape's cookie patient and other patents.

#9 I, for one, am all for e-Patents. They just make sense.

In fact I think we should follow the e-Patent idea to its logical end: to assemble all the peoples of the world and have them pass in front of an image of Bill Gates. All those who do not bow down and worship the image will be put to death.

#10 That last rant was sarcasm in case anyone missed that.

#11 Trent ...
if im reading that correct ..
you are willing to gimme the 20k I need?

#12 I'm patenting sex. Not the Billy-Clinton-Doesnt-Count-as-Sex,sex... but good ol' fasioned sex. I may not have invented it, and I may not even be the best out there... but what the hell. :-)

Make your checks payable to...

-Eric F

#13 BTW, I won't be liable for bad or buggy sex, either. It'll be in the TOS.

;-)

#14 I'll sue you for AIDS

#15 I'm fairly certain that falls under 'buggy sex', and not only did Eric remove all liability with the ToS, he had buggy sex declared illegal from all the money he made on the patent! ;-)

#16 Rofl.. ahh you guys crack me up :D

#17 Flowers - 20 dollars
Dinner - 60 dollars
Movie - 20 dollars
Having the exclusive patent on good sex - Priceless.

For everyone else, clinton sex will have to do.

#18 Uhh..
What is the software button..?

#19 A button in SW. Like the "Submit Post" button you use to post a reply.

#20 Oh ok, I had an idea but i wasnt exactly sure what you meant.

How can you patent a software button..btw?

I mean maybe an individual design...but the whole concept of the software button?!?

Thats ludacris