[davidjgraph]

The US patent office does not care/have the resources/have a clue how to enforce that patents are non-novel and/or obvious. It is an entirely corrupt system driven by a mass of lawyers, all encouraging their clients to build patent portfolios for "defence".

If you want to combat a patent, the best stage to do this is during the application stage, it's far harder to combat it after it's approved.

For those that aren't aware of the StackExchange patents site [0], this is the best site I'm currently aware of for collecting evidence against patent applications. I would encourage you to actively seek out this patent application, start a thread on it and submit evidence against it.

The US needs a cultural change on patents, to make it clear that the patent system is corrupt and companies that file software related/non-original patents as an excuse to not having to innovate any further/at all need to be shunned.

[0] http://patents.stackexchange.com/

[nilliams]

Agree and if anyone else has any information on how we would go about combating this patent please share it.

[hugs]

Thanks, I'll look into it. This is a serious issue.

[SkyMarshal]

Peer-To-Patent is another good one - http://peertopatent.org/