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IBM Wants Patent For Lotus Notes-Free Meetings

Posted by timothy on from the taketh-away-with-the-other dept.

theodp writes "Over at IBM, the Lotus Notes team has 'invented' preventing the use of their own product during meetings. Self-described patent reformer Big Blue has asked the USPTO for a patent covering Suppressing De-Focusing Activities During Selective Scheduled Meetings by forcing meeting attendees to 'submit to the computing system suspension requirements.' What's next — a patent for Verizon for blocking cellphone usage during movies?"

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  1. Sounds new to me by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I don't know of any existing products with this functionality. So they wrote it up first, and you're bitching because you lack the creativity or ambition to do so yourself.

    Oh, you don't like software patents? So competitive corporations should just throw in the towel and abandon patents that are allowed in our current system?

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