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Paul Graham on Patents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Monday April 10, 2006 @03:10AM from the stuff-to-read dept.

volts writes "The always interesting Paul Graham has a new essay, 'Are Software Patents Evil?'. "A few weeks ago I found to my surprise that I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three...""

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Re:The US Patent Office is very generous . . . by jbrelie · 2006-04-10 03:20 · Score: 2, Funny

Buy three - Get one Free!!!

It's marketing. The tobacco companies do it all the time. (Thanks!)
new offer... hurry ! by phreakv6 · 2006-04-10 03:23 · Score: 2, Funny

I'd been granted four patents. This was all the more surprising because I'd only applied for three...""

Oooooh ! dint u know ? they have an offer on those lil fellas now.
buy three
get one free
hurry.. offer open till stocks(no pun intended) last !

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fifteen jugglers, five believers
His analogy of the USPTO as a loose woman... by ameline · 2006-04-10 03:50 · Score: 3, Funny

It's a very good article -- and while I've not yet finished reading it, I loved this quote;

"...the USPTO in effect slept with Amazon on the first date."

As a side note, if any USPTO examiners who are assigned to one of the several applications I have pending are reading this; I will still respect you in the morning -- no really, I will. :-)

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Ian Ameline
greatest quote ever by Anonymous Coward · 2006-04-10 05:42 · Score: 1, Funny

"By granting such an over-broad patent, the USPTO in effect slept with Amazon on the first date. Was Amazon supposed to say no?"