Process patent awarded to Business Wire for Press Release SEO: Right or Wrong? - GoFuckYourself.com

$5 submissions · 10-07-2011, 02:02 AM

PR service Business wire applied for and got a process PATENT for using press releases for SEO. Check out the steps. Looks familiar? The question is: is this patent award an empty award or does it open the door to an ACACIA-style patent infringment lawsuit frenzy?

Reference: http://searchenginewatch.com/article...ase-SEO-Patent

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Business Wire, founded in 1961, has been a major force in press release distribution for the past 50 years. Now their power may have grown substantially. According to their own press release, the recently awarded patent included "the technological process of optimizing and distributing press releases to maximize their ability to be found and tracked in leading search engines" (emphasis added).

Pay attention to that word "process." This wasn't Business Wire patenting a bit of software or a new visible technology. This is the patenting of an SEO strategy.

Additional verbiage confirms that this isn't just the patenting of Business Wire's systems; the patent claim itself (as cited by Elevate Local) gives Business Wire rights to "a computer-implemented method comprising" (emphasis added) a variety of standard SEO tactics, most of them centering around the analysis and optimization of document structure and keyword use.

Barry-xlovecam · 10-07-2011, 04:17 AM

Well, I want to see the first court challenge on this patent ...

sponsorpimp · 10-07-2011, 04:19 AM

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bigluv · 10-07-2011, 10:34 AM

Patent system needs to be overhauled just like copyright.

AzteK · 10-07-2011, 10:38 AM

It's not going to stick. A press releases for SEO is just like SEOing any page (like articles). The medium and purpose it serves for it's distribution is different.

$5 submissions · 10-07-2011, 11:03 AM

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Originally Posted by AzteK

It's not going to stick. A press releases for SEO is just like SEOing any page (like articles). The medium and purpose it serves for it's distribution is different.

Exactly. It's too broadly worded.

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