{"id":531,"date":"2006-01-26T22:32:26","date_gmt":"2006-01-27T03:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=531"},"modified":"2006-01-26T22:33:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-27T03:33:56","slug":"cingular-wrests-the-outrageous-patent-abuse-award-away-from-ntp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Cingular wrests the Outrageous Patent Abuse Award away from NTP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you thought <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/index.php?s=blackberry\">NTP\/Blackberry mess<\/a> was stupid and ridiculous, there appears to be more stupidity coming down the patent bureaucracy pipeline.  Someone else is hoping that the The US Patent and Trademark Office will let <em>another<\/em> ridiculously abusive patent slip through the cracks.  The company this time?  Cingular.  And what did they patent?<\/p>\n<p>This:  \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cellular-news.com\/story\/15792.php\">Specifically<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The method and system described in the patent allows a user of a mobile phone (or other device) to select a displayable icon, such as an emoticon, that indicates the mood or emotion of the user or conveys other information independent of text. In some embodiments, the selected displayable icon is inserted into a text message or screen, such as an instant message, chat screen, or user text field.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in other words, something like: \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note that a Patent has not been issued yet (though the application number is rumored to be US 2006\/0015812 A1).  I sincerely hope the USPTO doesn&#8217;t bungle this one up. There&#8217;s plenty of prior art.<\/p>\n<p>Hey patent people! <strong>\ud83d\ude44<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, if you thought NTP\/Blackberry mess was stupid and ridiculous, there appears to be more stupidity coming down the patent bureaucracy pipeline. Someone else is hoping that the The US Patent and Trademark Office will let another ridiculously abusive patent slip through the cracks. The company this time? Cingular. And what did they patent? This: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgets-widgits-and-whatzits"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}