Reply to post: Re: IMO

Imagine a patent on organizing computer files being used against online shopping sites. Oh, it's still happening

Roland6 Silver badge

Re: IMO

they could submit their analyses there rather than just downvoting me.

Up voted because I agree with this point of yours, simply down voting without really challenging the viewpoint isn't really helpful - having myself at times wondered why I've been so massively downvoted.

Interestingly, after reading around, I suspect part of the problem is group think - we read what we want to read, I have come to the conclusion that a key word used in this patent is 'access'. It is clear that the patent describes a method for shortlisting files TO BE accessed using the file system, which does not involve actually accessing the target files or the file system they are held in; which seems to totally invalidate Claim 1...

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