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  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Patents
  • Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:34:50 -0500 (EST)


On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Joe Komenda wrote:
> Thanks to http://www.rc3.org for this tip:
>
> Amazon runneth amok: http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1558650.html
>
> Which, of course, reminds me of:
> http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html

My favorite responses to this issue, both from /.:

1)
USPTO Employment Application

1. Name ______________ 2. Date _______________
3. DOB _______________ 4. SSN ________________

5. I.Q. (check one)
( ) Moron
( ) Idiot
( ) Dim-wit
( ) Liberal Arts Flunkee

(Y or N) Have you ever been affiliated with a terrorist organization or
received a grade D or or better on an engineering examination?

(Y or N) Can you be trained to operate a rubber stamp within a period
of 16 weeks?

(Y or N) Are you able to employ a method and process for inducing
condensation upon a reflecting surface?

(Y or N) Do you agree that you deserve a patent for the above?

(Y or N) Were you alive when Al Gore invented the Internet?

(Y or N) Do you agree he deserves a patent for that?

... which, of course, is just another way of saying the USPTO will hire
anyone who can fog a mirror. :)

2) news headline: "Amazon granted patent on Internet boycotts"





  • Patents, Joe Komenda, 02/28/2000
    • <Possible follow-up(s)>
    • Re: Patents, Steven Champeon, 02/28/2000

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