On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 15:19 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > 2. If you think the PTO will let you patent anything at all with no serious > examination, I can tell you from personal experience that it ain't so.
>From Wikipedia: === "U.S. Patent 6,368,227 entitled "Method of Swinging on a Swing" was issued in 2002 to applicant Steven Olsen. This patent was filed shortly after business method patents became allowable in US patent law due to the 1998 State Street Bank decision. It appears to have been filed as a test of what could get through the patent office under the new guidelines. "The inventor claimed to have invented an improved method for a child to swing on a swing. "This patent was widely ridiculed and the director ordered a reexamination. During the reexamination, the claims were rejected. The patent owner elected not to appeal. A reexamination certificate was issued cancelling all of the claims." === See: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6368227.PN.&OS=PN/6368227&RS=PN/6368227 -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
