Re: [ga] GoDaddy: "We adamantly oppose the WLS as proposed and intend to use any means available to block its implementation"

["John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D." <john@johnberryhill.com>]

> John I guess this is one of your jokes?

No joke.  You can read it yourself at uspto.gov.

> describes I was doing already in late Spring 2000. I can't prove it.

You have to beat 1 November 1999.

> I
> didn't tell other people how to do it.

Prior secret use is not a publication, public use or sale.

> But other people also did do it,
> and didn't tell other people how to do it.

Yeah... that's what they all thought...

> You know why? Because telling others would increase competition. Not
> competition for these services, but for good domains. And because it seems
> impossible to patent something like this to anyone with a little common
> sense, so the only protection available is keeping it silent.

I agree with you completely.  That's one of the things that makes the
SnapNames patent applications fun.  There were all sorts of folks running
around doing all sorts of things - but one guy thought of filing a patent
application.

> The fact that so many people 'invent' functionally the same scripts at the
> same time shows it is not worth a patent.

Whether it is worth a patent will be up to the Patent Office.



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