Patent Plaintiffs Target Facebook as IPO Approaches

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Coming as a shock to absolutely no one, Facebook is fending off patent lawsuits left and right as it prepares for an anticipated $100B IPO. Hmmm, I wonder if that has anything to do with all these lawsuits? ;)

As it prepares for one of the biggest IPOs ever, Facebook is coming under the same fierce attacks being waged against other big technology companies: patent lawsuits. Last year, Facebook was named as a defendant in 22 lawsuits accusing it of patent infringement, double the number from 2010, according to a Reuters analysis of court documents on legal database Westlaw, a Thomson Reuters unit.
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*sigh* there needs to be a whole new system for software patents, the existing system is broken as it is, and "code" makes it too easy to vaguely patent simplistic things.

Facebook violated a patent that covers the core ability to transmit messages to large networks of users
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really?
 
Sorry, but there shouldn't be be any sort of software patents, period. Trademarks i can understand, but the idea that someone can own the rights to a combination of software commands is silly. I wonder how many attorneys work for the patent office and how many people involved in patent policy are or were attorneys.
 
tesfaye said:
Sorry, but there shouldn't be be any sort of software patents, period. Trademarks i can understand, but the idea that someone can own the rights to a combination of software commands is silly. I wonder how many attorneys work for the patent office and how many people involved in patent policy are or were attorneys.
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I'm ok with that, in fact any "ideas" or "techniques" for how to do something should not be patentable, only physical objects.
 
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