Well it seems like Friendster got another patent. They got their first patent in June which I blogged about. This second patent is about a "Method of inducing content uploads in a social network". I think this is getting a bit ridiculous, when I read the actual patent, it's like nothing new or ground breaking. It's just a bunch of ideas that are coherently explained together to achieve something, it's like a methodology or a system. Does that constitute a patent? I think (and I'm not the only one) that the US Patent Office needs to be overhauled, because many ideas become patented and then others can't use those ideas, since they get infringed upon and then you have all these legal disputes.
What's next, a patent for MySpace?
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