Carroll Grigsby wrote:
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:33 am, John Richard Smith wrote:A truely crazy state of affairs. If this is the current state of affairs in regard to the patent law industry then it would seem the problem is more than an EU law making affair and some kind of international decision making forum needs to be got to work on it to straighten out the purpose of patenting at all.
whack
Incidentally, I just know at some stage we are going to have the
arguement for patenting code thrown at us because they will say the
Americans allow it. Is that really true, or is that just throwing sand
in the works ?
John:
Several years ago, the esteemed United States Patent Office issued a patent to a 7 year old for swinging side-to-side on a child's swing (as opposed to the normal back-and-forth mode). When I told Will about it (Will is my 3 year old grandson), he wanted to file two separate patents: Swinging cattywampus, and swinging in circles. Both applications would include (1) standard flat board on two rope swings, (2) sling from two rope swings, and (3) tire from a single rope swings.
-- cmg
John
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