Sony cannot patent inventions in the UK that remove the anonymity of the peer-to-peer (P2P) user experience and put social networking at the heart of file-sharing.
The Patent Office ruled last week that the inventions are not eligible for patents.
Sony filed two patent applications for complementary inventions. One describes a means of exchanging information between computers or other devices in a network. The other describes ways of using that information.
The application for the “system and method for reviewing received digital content” describes building a web community.
I love it when big business wants to “copyright the comma” so to speak. In other words copyright stuff that’s been around for years.