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Surely this patent would run into 1st amendment issues were it ever to go to court?


How so?


They're basically saying they have exclusive rights to people disclosing biographical information about themselves in an online community.


I would go with prior art versus first amendment issues.

I am not aware of constitutional amendments being used to invalidate patents. Although, if anyone has any links to such, I would be quite interested.




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