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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: jasonlane on 25 November 2003, 17:58

Title: US patent office should patent stupidity
Post by: jasonlane on 25 November 2003, 17:58

Are patent office employes bored? Do they as a result of their boredom find / think up of new things to patent?

It now emmerges that the US patent office want's to patent, wait for it...Numbers!

I can understand that mathematical discovery and research has to be protected, especially for the benefit of all those mathematicians hard graft but Patenting numbers! Oh come on, this is going from bad to worse.

Next thing we'll know is that US style number patenting will be adopted everywhere, after all the US does "lead" the way is so many areas.


I only hope this is all a big joke, the author being Verity Stob it may well be.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34179.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34179.html)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34148.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34148.html)

Title: US patent office should patent stupidity
Post by: flap on 25 November 2003, 18:07

For Christ's sake, obviously it's a joke.

[ November 25, 2003: Message edited by: flap ]

Title: US patent office should patent stupidity
Post by: Xeen on 25 November 2003, 19:52

And Microsoft wants to patent the binary system.

http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=001851 (http://forum.microsuck.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=7&t=001851)

Title: US patent office should patent stupidity
Post by: Stryker on 26 November 2003, 02:27

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Originally posted by Zardoz:
Are patent office employes bored? Do they as a result of their boredom find / think up of new things to patent?

It now emmerges that the US patent office want's to patent, wait for it...Numbers!

I can understand that mathematical discovery and research has to be protected, especially for the benefit of all those mathematicians hard graft but Patenting numbers! Oh come on, this is going from bad to worse.

Next thing we'll know is that US style number patenting will be adopted everywhere, after all the US does "lead" the way is so many areas.


I only hope this is all a big joke, the author being Verity Stob it may well be.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34179.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34179.html)

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34148.html (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34148.html)

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hmm... you know, people that actually believe these thing they read need to be shot.

look at all the