- It’s called recipe, silly! – ITavisen.no

Here are the stupidest IT patents.

Tuesday, 16th September 2014 – 1:39 p.m.

On 19 June this year the American Supreme Court one watershed ruling in the so-called Alice v. CLS Bank only cause.

Completely normal
In the judgment it was stated that it is not possible to patent perfectly ordinary duties of a computer – in this case financial transactions.

In the wake of the judgment has come a long series of judgments in local courts in the United States. Many of them clearly shows how patent trolls now be stopped effectively.

Patent Troll is notoriously companies and individuals that screams “we did it first!” And “we have exclusive rights,” the smallest things, no matter how banal and general “invention” is.

phone is invented
Vox.com has healed a list of the most peculiar cases lately

A judge in Delaware said cash no to telecommunications giant Comcast, which meant they had the exclusive right to “check if the user is there before a connection is established.”

The court found that this principle had been around as long as people had called each other – ie since Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone in 1876.

A menu is a menu
court in New York said July 8th refuse a patent for “using a computer to plan a meal with the intent to complete a diet.”

The referee was not impressed with the company Diet Goal Innovations, which meant they had made a unique menu system for which the court concluded was just a regular recipe.

– Adjust the colors yourself!
On July 17 decided a federal appeals court that Polaroid (the that once gave you pictures that could play called once) could not obtain a patent on a system that makes colors appear differently on different devices.

The judge felt that this could all be done by adjusting the colors on your mobile or computer itself.

Bingo
Another federal court dismissed on August 26 patents on a Bingo program for PC.

The court could not see that PC bingo differed from the old fashioned Bingo with pen and paper.

“Using a computer”
On 11 September, a judgment in Florida that probably going to be a classic in legal history. Company Every Penny Counts defendants big bank Wells Fargo to have stolen their patent.

This patent expired on the “concept of subtracting a small amount of money from each of many payments to accumulate a larger sum of money – by using of a computer. “

As seen in Superman III …
referee Steven Merryday said banks have been doing this since the dawn of time.

And let precaution that he had seen something similar in the movie “Superman III”, where the bandit Gus Gorman (played by Richard Pryor) found out how he could steal rounding amounts from colleagues’ salary packages …