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Paul Graham on Patents

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. His analogy of the USPTO as a loose woman... by ameline · · 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. :-)

    --
    Ian Ameline