I Am Now An Official Inventor!

May 22nd, 2007

Fleck PatentAnd so is Patrick!

We just received a large stack of paper from the ‘International Searching Authority’ regarding a patent we filed in 2005 for certain parts of Fleck.com. It was published online on May 7, 2007 and can be found here:

(WO/2007/042076)

The title (how poetic!) is

“A COMPUTER PROGRAM AND SYSTEM FOR NAVIGATING THROUGH ELECTRONIC DOCUMENTS”

Patrick and me are listed as both as ‘Applicants’ and ‘Inventors’ which made us very proud when we first got the papers back. Now that it is online it is even more interesting! I wonder if it will affect my Google Rank.

So now I can introduce myself as the “Successful Serial Internet Entrepreneur and Inventor”. As far as the value of a patent and my opinion on patents in general, that is another story.

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7 Responses to “I Am Now An Official Inventor!”

  1. Maarten on May 22, 2007 11:48 am (11:48)

    Wow, that is actually really cool!
    Congratulations guys.

    (now grow a fuzzy beard and get spectacles :-)

  2. edgar neo on May 22, 2007 1:26 pm (13:26)

    congrats to you guys!!!

    @gar

  3. Tijs Teulings on May 22, 2007 1:48 pm (13:48)

    Wow, i wouldn’t have taken you for a software patent proponent but i guess i was mistaken. I guess you had your reasons…

  4. Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten on May 22, 2007 2:02 pm (14:02)

    @Tijs: I’m not a patent proponent. I dislike software patents as much as everyone online. But a small part of our technology proved to be innovative enough to patent. It was a nice thing to be able to say to investors, and our mothers, but that is as far at will take us. We won’t have enough budget to actually patent the technology world wide (€80.000) and certainly not enough money to protect it, even if we wanted too…

  5. janneke247@hotmail.com on May 22, 2007 2:03 pm (14:03)

    Boris, Theoderik, Krelis, Victorszoon
    Lol, well don Krelis!

  6. Tijs Teulings on May 22, 2007 2:17 pm (14:17)

    Fair enough. Thanks for explaining your position a bit more, it would be too bad if this public statement would be used/read as a vote for software patents by some of those who -are- proponents of this archaic system (looking in the general direction of VVD politicians)

  7. Rutger van Waveren on May 23, 2007 3:10 pm (15:10)

    Boris, out of curiousity, how much did the patent application cost? I saw you worked with a patent attorney which costs money off course. But the filing itself, is that costly?

    I was thinking about filing a patent myself, hence the questions…

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