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Facebook Awarded a Patent on Social Network News Feeds : The USPTO is NUTS

By Andis Kaulins

CNN says it best:

""Can I start screaming loudly about patent reform now?" tweeted Matt Galligan...."

IP Watchdog writes about the cause of the screaming which is that:

Facebook Gets US Patent on Social Network News Feeds | Patents & Patent Law

A patent on a "dynamic news feed"?

Yes, and your great-grandmother wears kryptonite green and lemon yellow polka dot Nikes with pink soles.

If there ever was proof that the entire busines of patents is just a scam of nearly criminal proportions, this is it.

Here is a sample of the invention in Patent No. 7,669,123, linked here from IP Watchdog:

Is the world mad? This patent madness MUST STOP.

Full post as published by LawPundit on February 28, 2010 (boomark / email).