{"id":13956,"date":"2014-09-05T23:01:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T04:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13956"},"modified":"2014-09-05T23:01:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T04:01:36","slug":"appeals-court-knocks-out-computer-bingo-patents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13956","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court knocks out computer bingo patents"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cafc.uscourts.gov\/images\/stories\/opinions-orders\/13-1663.Opinion.8-22-2014.1.PDF\">opinion\u00a0(PDF)<\/a> published this morning, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court&#8217;s decision to invalidate\u00a0two patents, numbered <a href=\"http:\/\/patft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=\/netahtml\/PTO\/search-bool.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;d=PALL&amp;RefSrch=yes&amp;Query=PN\/6398646\">6,398,646<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/patents\/US6656045\">6,656,045<\/a>, claiming to cover\u00a0computerized bingo.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, you read that right: bingo.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2014\/08\/appeals-court-knocks-out-computer-bingo-patents\/#p3\">Appeals court knocks out computer bingo patents | Ars Technica<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an\u00a0opinion\u00a0(PDF) published this morning, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a lower court&#8217;s decision to invalidate\u00a0two patents, numbered 6,398,646 and 6,656,045, claiming to cover\u00a0computerized bingo. Yes, you read that right: bingo. via Appeals court knocks &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=13956\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[874,1325],"class_list":["post-13956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ip","tag-software-patents","tag-uspto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13957,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions\/13957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}