Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling

Posted by lotusleaf1987 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @12:38PM
from the techdirt.com dept.

http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081107/0118162765.shtml

This may or may not have been submitted, but I found the article worthwhile and interesting and thought some other people might enjoy it.

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Re:Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling by hypersoar on Thursday August 26, 2010 @02:23PM (#1636730)

This story was posted not long ago (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1608302). Also, Halliburton has not been awarded the patent. They have only submitted the application.

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Re:Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling by grg on Thursday August 26, 2010 @02:33PM (#1636756)

Yes, this story is very old. Look at the comments: they're from 2008!

It's good to know they weren't awarded the patent.

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Re:Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling by lotusleaf1987 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @03:08PM (#1636843)

What is the best way to know if it has already been submitted? Just googling it? Oh well, hopefully a few people who didn't catch it the first time got a chance to read it.

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Re:Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling by chris24 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @04:56PM (#1637142)

Search YC has better sorting options than Google for this type of situation: http://searchyc.com/Halliburton?sort=by_points

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Re:Halliburton Patents Patent Trolling by lotusleaf1987 on Thursday August 26, 2010 @06:29PM (#1637350)

I didn't even know that existed...thanks and appreciated!

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