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Re: jessellivermore post# 6725

Thursday, 01/03/2008 10:39:27 PM

Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:39:27 PM

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.. you can patent just about anything ..

Yes, that's the problem.

One of my favorite patents was in the Y2k comedy. Sombody patented the concept that 2 digit dates less than (for example) 20 would be 20xx, but greater than 20 would be 19xx. Brilliant. Nobody was ever doing simple stuff like that.

And we of course have the AMZN "one click" patent.

Maybe I will write a patent for "Obtaining bogus Nigeran patents in order to extort cash from international companies".

Sorry for venting, but in my previous job I was point man for evaluating patent issues, and the state of the system is pathetic.

The patent system is really, really broken. Both wrt obviousness and gimicks to patent discoveries (discoveries are not patentable).
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