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Originally posted by BradM
Jesus, I was using subdomains in '97. No proof but damn.
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Besides showing prior art, another way to invalidate a patent is to show the fraud in the filing and documentation of the patent.
The inventors have to disclose all prior art and information that went into the idea.
For example: if anyone of these people:
Shuster; Brian (Stateline, NV); Leong; Johnson (San Jose, CA); Price; Matthew (Santa Clara, CA); Lam; Brian (Sunnyvale, CA); Johnson; Desmond Ford (Monte Sereno, CA)
...were involved with companies already doing the items described in the patent, then it can be proven the idea was not novel.
Like with their popup patent, it was common place back then that people were doing what the patent described, it's just that no one patented the idea... prior art might be hard to find since most webmasters dont' document, they just do it.
Before people start jumping on the "patent everything" bandwagon... you need to have an idea that is new and novel and not currently being used or documented anywhere.
Fight the Surfacing!