Facebook Patents The Feed

Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by txt on Thursday February 25, 2010 @11:28PM (#1152357)

Hehe, this is getting ridiculous...Wasn't friendfeed.com created before facebook? Even if it wasn't (or was) there is no way this could hold up.

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Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by pbiggar on Friday February 26, 2010 @01:06AM (#1152546)

I'm pretty sure Facebook bought friendfeed. I'm not sure exactly how patents work, but it seems this would mean you couldn't cite friendfeed as prior art.

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Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by mkramlich on Friday February 26, 2010 @02:15AM (#1152654)

Don't worry, the USPTO doesn't know how patents work either.

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Re:Facebook Patents The Feed by DennisP on Friday February 26, 2010 @10:05AM (#1153236)

If a technique was publicly known, it counts as prior art.

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