The Jaipuria-patent, a new essential social-networking-patent is going to be auctioned in October. Amit and Pradeep Jaipuria's patent, issued in Mai 2006, claims the property of creating online networks, searching a personal and a peer's network database under advanced privacy features...
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Jaipuria- und Friendsterpatent in der Grabenstellung?
Im Oktober wird in Chicago das Jaipuria-Patent versteigert, ein weiteres grundlegendes Patent im Bereich sozialer Online-Netzwerke. Amit und Pradeep Jaipurias Patent, das im Mai letzten Jahres ausgestellt wurde, gibt an, das Anlegen und Durchsuchen sozialer Netzwerke mit bestimmten Zugangsberechtigungen erfunden zu haben...
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"A user registers with the online community and personally adds individuals that they know to their personal networking database. While adding these peers to the networking database, the user grants a specific level of access to each individual... Based on the level of access granted by the user, the peer may or may not be able to access the users information or the user's personal databases for potential networking." (patent-application excerpt)I'm no longer wondering about the weird practises of the U.S.-patent-system, software-patents and prior art, blabla yadayada. What really surprises me this time is the issuance of a patent seemingly contradictory to already existing intellectual properties. The Jaipuria-patent seems to be in conflict with the so-called Friendster-patent in various details, for example searching my and my peers' networks.
Does anybody have a clue about this?
"A user registers with the online community and personally adds individuals that they know to their personal networking database. While adding these peers to the networking database, the user grants a specific level of access to each individual... Based on the level of access granted by the user, the peer may or may not be able to access the users information or the user's personal databases for potential networking." (patent-application excerpt)Ich wundere mich längst nicht mehr über die seltsame Praxis des U.S.-Patentamts und amerikanische Software-Patente die geistiges Eigentum auf Ideen anmelden, die es schon Jahre zuvor gab. Was ich allerdings erstaunlich finde, ist die Bewilligung eines Patents, das sich mit bereits bestenden Patenten überschneidet; das Jaipuria-Patent scheint in einigen Details dem Friendster-Patent sehr ähnlich zu sein, z.B. bei der Suchfunktion.
Hat jemand ein Idee, wie so etwas zustande kommen kann?
:P <- Lutz
3 comments:
Thats interesting... i checked out the patent at the uspto website and it claims a filing date of 2000 - friendster only started in 2003.. should be interesting to see what happens.
Well, the date that the Jaipuria-patent was filed is July 11, 2001 (according to USPTO), and it was issued on May 16, 2006 -- whereas the Friendster-patent was filed on June 16, 2003 and issued on June 27, 2006. It was filed and issued later than the Jaipuria-patent.
I'm not a patent-lawyer, and this is sth that I don't quite get: how is issuance of such patent possible when there is a conflicting patent already filed and issued before?
:P <- Lutz
Its the first to file that is awarded all rights to the patent - i suppose the buyer of the Jaipuria patent could use it to invalidate the friendster patent if the claims match.
this also sets up the case for better evaluation of application by the USPTO for prior art.
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