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I thought patents must not be "obvious"
Unless there was something really innovative here, the patent office must have gotten sloppy. This is about as dumb as the PTO granting Spike Lee a copyright for the word Spike.
Posted by: george_ou   Posted on: 08/16/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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I thought patents must not be "obvious"  george_ou | 08/16/05
I think you mean is  Patrick Jones | 08/16/05
Actually...  rapson | 08/17/05
Good one  Patrick Jones | 08/17/05
Neutral is the nice way of saying...  Zinoron | 08/17/05
Why this happens  tic swayback | 08/17/05
The USPTO make no money for rejecting....  figgle | 08/17/05
What about prior art?  Roger Ramjet | 08/17/05
Even...  IT_Critic | 08/18/05
Even earlier prior art  Sir_Chancealot | 08/17/05
I've always hated that feature  voska | 08/17/05
Older ones waited  wookey | 08/19/05
Even earlier than my previous post  Sir_Chancealot | 08/17/05
autorun shouldn't even exist anyway  Pelger | 08/17/05
AUTOEXEC.EXE  Palmyra | 08/17/05
Precident  Roger Ramjet | 08/17/05
I want the patent on the process of filing software patents  coffeenite | 08/17/05
Sorry, not new and novel...  Zinoron | 08/17/05
Then I want the patent on creating mediocre posts  coffeenite | 08/17/05
The Patent Office  Update victim | 08/17/05
Patent Office ?? Knowledge?? of the law  Update victim | 08/17/05
Lame lame lame lame lame lame  snilmn | 08/17/05
Isn't it the hardware...  IT_Critic | 08/18/05
Well  urapns | 08/18/05

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