acroyear | Patent Prior Art Madness

The Patent granted on "a method for assigning URL's and e-mail addresses to members of a group comprising the steps of: assigning each member of said group a URL of the form name.subdomain.domain and assigning each member of said group an e-mail address of the form [email protected].'

Slashdot comment:

You know what's funny? the USPTO is supposed to do prior art research to grant patents. Well guess where you can find prior art for this method? at the USPTO itself. Here for example:

estta.uspto.gov is a live server, and
[email protected] is a valid email address at USPTO.

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