Having been at a company IBM acquired, we were told that if we could come up with a novel way to throw paper into a trash can....
Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Oct 11, 2020, at 10:39 PM, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It was me that said they were pathetic and I stand by that remark. There's a > website that has a "stupid patent of the month" which is dominated by IBM. > > Here's a good one! > https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/02/stupid-patent-month-ibm-patents-out-office-email > > A lot of my colleagues are ex IBMers and quite a few of them have their names > on patents. A lot of those patents are stupid! Any product feature that they > designed > that was considered novel they lodged a patent request for. They are the > first ones to acknowledge that the process was brain-damaged. IBM wanted to > use patents > as bargaining chips. > >> On 2020-10-12 12:27 AM, Bill Johnson wrote: >> I agree. It wasn’t me who said they were pathetic. >> >> >> Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone >> >> >> On Sunday, October 11, 2020, 12:26 PM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> >> wrote: >> >> Patents are not pathetic. Other companies still make new patents. >> Including those like Microsoft and Google. >> Patents are still valid and important even if some company have only few >> of them or cannot make any. >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
