Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.

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The Unbearable Stupidity of Some Patents

Posted on July 02, 2009

If I told you that I had just filed a patent for a system to sell equity in domain names , I d expect you to laugh at me. I haven t ranted and raved against software (and business method) patents for a while because I got bored of doing it. The PTO has gotten so far behind on responding to patent applications that the whole notion of a four year cycle to get a software patent approved just underscores how ridiculous the whole thing is given the pace of innovation in software.But today s silly patent popped up somewhere and I just couldn t resist poking fun at it. Go Daddy ...

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