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"Other inventions patented by Richardson include ... an open standard for online forums"

er, what?



Hard to know what this is, I couldn't find it anywhere.

Looking at his blog though: http://ricrichardson.blogspot.com/

Down on the right hand side it says "PC Online" and the title tag states "Open standard for online forums. Beta tested with advertising community".

Looking at the rest of the claims he makes, nearly all are obvious at the time that they were made.

Obvious is defined as "would another developer given the same problem create the same solution", if so then there has been no inventive step and the patent should be dismissed. This is before even considering prior art and other things... the guy is a joke.




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