« Bridging the Gap | Main | Austin Web Posse party at Futures Lab » Social network patent?Xeni Jardin reports that the whacky guys at Friendster filed a patent on the concept of the online social network, and posts a couple of comments about potential prior art, including a note from Sean Ness noting that Ryze preceded Friendster and that Jonathan Abrams explicitly said that he was taking the Ryze business networking concept to a site more focused in dating. I was a member of Ryze before Friendster launched; it's pretty clearly the same concept suggesting "prior art," so you have to marvel at Friendster's chutzpah in filing this patent. I talked to a patent attorney at a futurists' meeting a couple of weeks ago, and he said the patent office really does rsearch claims before they approve 'em. You gotta wonder about that. [Link] jon posted this at 9:02 AM |
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