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How to Become a Patent Millionaire

Posted by michael on from the perpetual-motion-device dept.

An anonymous reader writes "SF Gate has an article about people who patent ideas for things they have no intentions of building, hoping to license technology or block competitors from doing something similar. As if the patent system weren't screwed up enough already."

3 of 500 comments (clear)

  1. Waiting for MS To patent... by Ballresin · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The entire process of patenting something.

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    I got nothin'.
  2. First patent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Patent 6,666,666.

    By Anonymous coward, et al.

    abtract
    A method of exploiting a bug in the webserver of the debian project, to redirect the user to a digital representation of a mutliated rectum

    prototype
    Click here for a demonstaaation/aÂ

  3. Open Source advocates hate patents by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because Open Source people never invent anything.