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Comment by kd5bjo | Hacker News Reader

Seems like they pursued the wrong kind of IP protection; the patent office should have denied the application and referred them to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_dress .

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What's the process to ask the patent office to reexam this patent?

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/stats/Reexamination_Information...

"Filing Compliant Reexamination Requests"

http://www.uspto.gov/patents/Best_Practices_and_FAQs_for_fil...

Thanks, I'll file the request Monday.

No problem. I am as well. I believe you need to include prior art with the re-examination request. I will be submitting yoga videos, at least from the 90s, such as (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUgtMaAZzW0) that certainly raise questions whether the patent is valid or not.

I'm being told a patent reexamination fee is $6000: http://patents.stackexchange.com/questions/5587/method-to-re...

Is this accurate?

What about any kind of exercise video that's filmed as if someone is virtually in the class? I can't believe this kind of thing can be patentable AT ALL, but the next worst thing is substituting [Yoga] for [X] a hundred times and also patenting those. Frivolous, bullshit patents.

The problem is, aren't they saying that the patent only covers streaming videos with the same mise-en-scene?

Trade dress is more expensive to litigate.

Plus trade dress is a sane, established system that isn't supposed to be used harass and extort businesses who aren't trying impersonate your business.

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