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How to Become a Patent Millionaire
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."
Here is an idea I had about 20 years ago, feel free to patent it and make a bunch of money: A digital cell phone with built in 128-bit (or whatever) public key encription. If you call a regular phone, it will not encode the voice stream, but if you call another encripted cell phone, then a the phones would exchange encripting keys and voice data would be encripted/decripted by the phones. sell them to drug dealers, or whatever.
"You don't have to build it," Ferrell said. "You just have to conceive it. By filing a couple of patents, you essentially have co-opted the standards road map. Anybody who wants to go from G to X has to get through your toll road."
This waste of egg and sperm should be hogtied and sodomized with a hardcover edition of the law he is so fond of exploiting.
And to think that the EU is working to adopt a more US-like patent system:( The only thing more lame than these pricks are the politicians who are trying to get this mess into Europe.
ahh... it felt good to rage a little... won't do any good, but still...
It's probably better to use bluetooth.. Hmm scrap that - 802.11 combined with gps.. I'm forever loosing the mugs to flatmates - this way I can keep track of where it is. I can have it update a web page every few minutes. Then from work I can keep an eye on where it is.
I'm sure I'll get tarred and feathered by the geek community for this, but I actually think the time-sensitive shading idea is pretty cool. Not sure how good it would be in practice, but I'm always up for some good eye candy. Especially my own (shameless unrelated plug). What's a little wasted CPU time if you can have your desktop reflect the time of day it is? Sounds a lot like xplanet, but cooler.