diff --git a/java/client/src/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverter.java b/java/client/src/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverter.java
index 091cbeaad4018..9be3c2f691a76 100644
--- a/java/client/src/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverter.java
+++ b/java/client/src/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverter.java
@@ -245,8 +245,9 @@ private JsonElement mapObject(Object toConvert, int maxDepth, boolean skipNulls)
         continue;
       }
 
+      // Only include methods not on java.lang.Object to stop things being super-noisy
       Method readMethod = pd.getReadMethod();
-      if (readMethod == null) {
+      if (readMethod == null || Object.class.equals(readMethod.getDeclaringClass())) {
         continue;
       }
 
diff --git a/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverterTest.java b/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverterTest.java
index 7ca667001be80..e0e02e4aa4cb4 100644
--- a/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverterTest.java
+++ b/java/client/test/org/openqa/selenium/json/BeanToJsonConverterTest.java
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertThat;
 import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
 import static org.junit.Assert.fail;
+import static org.openqa.selenium.json.Json.MAP_TYPE;
 
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableMap;
 import com.google.common.collect.ImmutableSortedSet;
@@ -59,6 +60,10 @@
 import org.openqa.selenium.remote.SessionId;
 
 import java.awt.*;
+import java.beans.FeatureDescriptor;
+import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
+import java.beans.Introspector;
+import java.beans.PropertyDescriptor;
 import java.io.StringReader;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
@@ -70,6 +75,7 @@
 import java.util.Set;
 import java.util.concurrent.TimeUnit;
 import java.util.logging.Level;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
 
 
 @RunWith(JUnit4.class)
@@ -534,6 +540,20 @@ public void shouldConvertAUrlToAString() throws MalformedURLException {
     assertEquals(url.toExternalForm(), converted.get("url").getAsString());
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void shouldNotIncludePropertiesFromJavaLangObjectOtherThanClass()
+      throws IntrospectionException {
+    String json = new BeanToJsonConverter().convert(new SimpleBean());
+
+    JsonObject converted = new JsonParser().parse(json).getAsJsonObject();
+
+    Stream.of(SimplePropertyDescriptor.getPropertyDescriptors(Object.class))
+        .filter(pd -> !"class".equals(pd.getName()))
+        .map(SimplePropertyDescriptor::getName)
+        .peek(System.out::println)
+        .forEach(name -> assertFalse(name, converted.keySet().contains(name)));
+  }
+
   @SuppressWarnings("unused")
   private static class SimpleBean {