Craig Guy wrote:
You'll usually see these as being design patents. I remember looking
up a patent number on my garden hose sprayer once, it was a patent on
the design itself or some such.
Craig
Often they will patent something like the way the hinge clips to the top
of a cheap plastic beverage container. This type of thing was happening
long before software patents. They call it protection but it is really a
form of bullying the competitors. Anybosy with a molding machine can
turn out ice cube trays and cereal bowls.
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trixter http://www.0xdecafbad.com wrote:
On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 01:13 -0400, Paul wrote:
I really don't see how any government can afford to properly
evaluate patent applications with the fees they collect. They
charge the same fee for salad spinners and codecs.
And you get about the same results, there are some really silly patents
out there. Some as simple as 2 C instructions.
Funny thing is how you see patent numbers and patent pending on a lot
of simple one-piece plastic items. I look those new ice cube trays
and laundry baskets over carefully and never find anything obviously
innovative.
I'm sure that's the case with the salad spinner. He couldn't get a
patent on centrifugal force unless he put a microcomputer and
software into the product. :-)
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