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Microsoft Receives Patent For Double-Click
kaluta writes "The Sydney Morning Herald is reporting that Microsoft was granted a patent for double-clicking on April 27. The patent in question is 6,727,830 and says, amongst other stuff: 'A default function for an application is launched if the button is pressed for a short, i.e., normal, period of time. An alternative function of the application is launched if the button is pressed for a long, (e.g., at least one second), period of time. Still another function can be launched if the application button is pressed multiple times within a short period of time, e.g., double click'. So this is what we have to look foward to in the E.U. now?"
Run for it, gotta get the trippelclick patent before microsoft gets it!
.. the trash bin.
seriously, this is really ridicilous, the patent system as it is is really just a giant joke. The system desperatly needs a remake or makeover, making the important patents pass, and the ridicilous ones take a loong vacation in
Doolittle :
Bomb no.20 : To explode of course.
There has to be prior art for this!! Or has the world gone totaly mad
Same s**t, different day
The problem is not that someone has a loaded gun pointed at your head. The problem only comes when that person pulls the trigger. By all means, let them become a felon. The jail time will teach them a lesson.
Well, I don't think any Slashdotters will be getting those patents on moving and interacting.
And certainly not the patents on moving and interacting with women.
(Well, maybe with one woman: the patent on moving back into the basement and interacting with Mom.)
:)
Opinions on the Twiddler2 hand-held keyboard?
Nah, next is someone trying to patent the patenting procedure. Then the world explodes.
But my patent for a process to aquire technology in widespread use via deep pockets and infinite legal resources was turned down.
This just in -- Slashdot Headline Misrepresents Patent Again.
Why does every article regarding a patent here have to have a headline and summary that totally gets it wrong?
Definitely a +1 Funny reference, if I had mod points.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
In Soviet Russia, double-clicking patents Microsoft!
End Communication.
Haha.
That doesn't surprise me at all. Pretty soon we'll see Microsoft trying to get a copyright on the damn taskbar...
"Instant gratification takes too long." - Carrie Fisher
Not to mention four clicks to select page (or entire text box, depending), five to select entire document, and a few variations thereof (frex, my fave HTML editor does a variety of selections depending on what you clicked on and how many times). I first encountered the "multiple clicks to select more stuff" function in some word processor in 1993, and I doubt it was new then.
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?