It's kind of sad, isn't it... This guy spent who knows how much money on getting this patent, and it describes (as you say) basic procedures that were in routine use at least ten years before the application.
Sad because of all that money, but sadder still that the USPTO was so clueless as to think this was novel work. I don't suppose PUBPAT would take a look at it. Too expensive for a patent that's surely never going to be asserted. BTW, the patent has the complete source code at the end, in a form that strongly suggests that the patent office could make use of the product itself. And perhaps we can conclude something about the programming style, when we see the second of two USING statements in the program: USING PCFORM+8,13,12,11,10,9,8 Tony H. > I was stumbling around today and found this patent: > > http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6886160.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
