US patent office should patent stupidity

[jasonlane]

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/28/34148.html

[flap]

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

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

[Xeen]

And Microsoft wants to patent the binary system.

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

[Stryker]

quote: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/28/34148.html

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

look at all the