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GoDaddy titles a patent "Announcing a Domain Name Registration on a Social Website"

Regardless of your position on US copyright law, you simply must understand this important and not-so-subtle distinction before you make arguments about the validity of a patent. There are 18 claims in this patent. Read and complain about specific claims.

To choose a random example, patent US496217 by Stihl (1990) is titled "Handle for a chain saw", yet Stihl did not patent handles on chain saws.



"Handle for a chain saw" patents are usually described with language precise enough they can't do that.

"Method and apparatus for lifting and operating a chain saw" would be more akin to the useless software patents that are out there.




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