Xybernaut Patents Collar Computer

Posted by timothy on Tuesday September 28, 2004 @11:58PM from the rational-action-in-an-irrational-system dept.

igargoyle writes "Wearable Computer manufacturer, Xybernaut, has encouraged the kludge that is the patent office by patenting collar based wearable computers. Besides being extremely vague, the whole thing sounds likes the Slashdot article, 'A Linux Machine For Your Collar.' There are many references to this idea, and computer collars have been used as nomadic radios and animal tracking devices before. Please help encourage this company to stop wasting taxpayer's money and encourage innovation instead of preventing it."

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Re:How are they wasting taxpayer's money? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-09-29 00:46 · Score: -1, Troll

"you'd see that innovation isn't hurt, but actually helped by "correct" patents. "

How does reading the "law" help to show that they help innovation.

Look here:

"Patents hurt innovation"

Does that make it true? Or is it just a bunch of gibberish pretending to be the truth?
In SOVIET RUSSIA by Flatline_hun · 2004-09-29 06:27 · Score: -1, Troll

...you get shot if you dare to imagine a beowulf cluster of collar computers, you insensitive clod!

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Yeah, free Ipod! He is innocent!