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Amazon get patent for URL search string
Wait, that can't possibly mean what we think it means. They have a patent on URLS like "www.a9.com/San Francisco Hotels"? Yup, that's exactly what it means. Amazon claims that what differentiates these URLs from others is the lack of special formatting language like "search?q=."
Now, there are at least two basic problems with this as far as we can tell:
- Generally you're only supposed to be able to get a patent for things that aren't obvious.
- We're pretty sure there will be a lot of companies who can show "prior art," meaning they had URLs following this format long before Amazon filed for the patent in 2004.
[via Slashdot]
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Guido said 10:02AM on 10-24-2007
so amazon is trying to patent .htaccess ?
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James said 11:51AM on 10-24-2007
Next up, "A Method for Displaying Text and Images On a Remote Computer". You laugh now, but...
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Oh wait, Al Gore invented the Internet already. My bad.
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Conda said 5:07PM on 10-24-2007
patenting the methods of mod_rewrite, what will they think of next?
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Michael Neel said 7:01PM on 10-24-2007
Insane... the CGI protocol defined "PATH_INFO" years... decades ago.
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