Hulu Sued For Violating 'TV Guide' Patent
from the because-without-that,-no-one-would-have-thought-of-it dept
Earlier this year, we noted that Rovi (the hip new name for DRM company Macrovision) had taken a bunch of the patents it got when it bought Gemstar/TV Guide a few years back, and sued Amazon for daring to offer a TV listing on IMDB. Apparently Rovi is having so much fun suing people for doing totally obvious things that it's expanded the effort and is now suing Hulu as well. It's interesting to see that it's actually using different patents in this case, compared to in the Amazon case, but that doesn't make them any less questionable:- 6,396,546: "Electronic television program guide schedule system and method"
- 7,103,906: "User controlled multi-device media-on-demand system"
- 7,769,775: "Search engine for video and graphics with access authorization"
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Filed Under: patents, tv guide
Companies: gemstar, hulu, macrovision, rovi
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Hmm.. Maybe...
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Unbelievable
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Unbelievable
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http://www.wikipatents.com/US-Patent-6666666/multi-chamber-positive-displacement-fluid-device
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Sorry Mike
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Re: Unbelievable
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last one
Like no one was doing searches in 2007?
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Every single Excel spreadsheet and every single event planning book.
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http://epguides.com/FAQ/related.html
Good times, I don't use that anymore but some people may find it useful.
on-my.tv for example started in 2005.
tVDB is probably also but not sure.
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Usually by just filing another patent that says the same thing in different words.
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altho i have not looked i'm sure it had tv listing's once tv started
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hmmmm....
On a side note, how many patents do you think the human brain infringes on? "Device and system for analysis and storage of life events as sensory input information", "Device and system for the control of bodily functions through electrical impulses to the nervous system (patent pending)" ...?
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Yahoo
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Wait I won't.I am not a scumbag
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WTF
Go out and ADD, info from the Internet channels direct to it..WITH PERMISSION
SORT it by TIME OF SHOW, per channel...
ANd these guys have a patent on a spread sheet.????
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The problem with software...
A copy of TV Guide from 1953 is a great example of this.
So you end up with new patents on 50 year old "technology".
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Web Hosting and Relational Databases
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