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BountyQuest CEO Patenting Lighting Toilet Water
theodp writes "Charles Cella, CEO of the widely-hyped Jeff Bezos and Tim O'Reilly funded patent reform vehicle BountyQuest, has filed for a number of patents since BountyQuest's demise, including one that covers illuminating water in a toilet bowl (see FIG. 7). Cella's co-inventors include principals of Color Kinetics, which has come under fire for strong-arm patent tactics and whose Board colorfully likens its IP to nuclear weapons."
Bah!
When I was young, we used to chug a pitcher of Plutonium and really light up the bowl.
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If he has a patent on lighting toilet water and I have lights in my swimming pool... does that mean I can be sued if I pee in my pool?
Oh wait, prior art. I did that twenty five years ago. *Whew*
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This shit is very illuminating!
You can't handle the truth.
...lighting a fart?
Unless someone claims prior (f)art??!!
Sorry.
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I don't think I'd feel safe if I dropped the soap in that bathroom.
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That's the tentacle demons' job, and their union is very touchy about demarcation issues and has high-level contacts with the yakuza.
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