Many claims in Sendori's patent applications are denied. Sendori, a domain name advertising service acquired by IAC in January, has hit some major roadblocks on patents it filed. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sent a final notice of ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Yahoo Awarded Patent for Human-Enhanced Search Engine
· Policy & LawYahoo gets patent for human editor enhancements to search results. Yahoo was awarded U.S. patent 7,599,911 today for "Method and apparatus for search ranking using human input and automated ranking". The patent was filed in 2002. Essentially, this ... Continue Reading13 Comments
GoDaddy Files 3 Patents for Domain Suggestion and Advertising Method
· Domain RegistrarsCompany files patents for improving current domain suggestion and advertising systems. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed three patents for a method of suggesting possible domain names. The applications ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Go Daddy Files Patents for Enhanced Whois and DNS Records
· Domain RegistrarsGo Daddy files three patents for whois and DNS. Go Daddy Group, Inc., parent company of domain name registrar GoDaddy, has filed three patents related to interactive and enhanced whois and DNS records. The three applications were published by the ... Continue Reading20 Comments
Sun Microsystems Awarded Patent for Detecting Spoofed Domain Names
· Policy & LawSun awarded patent to detect spoofed domains and send web users to intended domain name. Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ: JAVA) has been awarded U.S. patent 7,559,085 for "Detection for deceptively similar domain names". The patent was filed in 2004 and ... Continue Reading5 Comments
GoDaddy Files Patent for Method of Selling Equity in Domain Names
· Domain RegistrarsDomain registrar files patents for system to sell equity in domain names. Go Daddy Group Inc. has filed a patent for a method of selling equity in domain names and protecting the domain names in which the equity is issued. The patent is for a system ... Continue Reading29 Comments
GoDaddy Files Patents for “Hosting Connection”
· Domain RegistrarsRecent patent filings appear to cover aspects of GoDaddy's Hosting Connection service. A series of four related patent applications filed by GoDaddy and published by the USPTO yesterday appear to cover GoDaddy's "Hosting Connection" service that lets ... Continue Reading5 Comments
GoDaddy Looks to Social Networking for Growth
· Domain RegistrarsDomain registrar and web hosting company files patents for aggregating social network sites. The world's biggest domain registrar, GoDaddy, may be looking to social networking to grow its business. The company filed three patents this year, ... Continue Reading6 Comments
