Google Gets Patent for "Innovative" Homepage
Google Gets Patent for "Innovative" Homepage
Posted 09/03/2009 at 1:06pm
| by Pulkit Chandna
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Google has been awarded yet another patent by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office. Its latest patent - a design patent for its no-frills homepage - did not come on a platter, though. It took over five years for the search giant’s legal cronies to secure the USPTO’s nod.
The patent application describes the now-patented Google homepage, in a rather long-winded manner, as being a "graphical user interface for a display screen of a communications terminal.” Although the verbose account of the minimalist Google homepage may lend an air of significance to the patent, this design patent is actually limited in scope just like other design patents. Furthermore, experts believe it is difficult to enforce design patents in court.
The Google homepage has remained largely unchanged – only links to some other Google services have been moved - in the five years intervening the patent filing and approval. The design patent will expire on Sept 1, 2023.
Image Credit: PatentlyO
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gendoikari1
September 03, 2009 at 3:03pm
To prove that the patent system is stupid enough when it comes to technology.
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