On Dec 14, 2006, at 9:29 PM, Robert Wright wrote: > Anyway, why would the patent office even register this?
To help out a toymaker? Actually, the Patent Office apparently will register a patent on virtually anything these days. Especially if it's related to computers or the Internet. I took a course in patent theory in college, and I know that to receive a patent your idea is supposed to be "novel". Explain to me how all these computer patents are "novel", when someone can get a patent on 1-Click purchasing, or a slew of other equally ridiculous and TOTALLY obvious ideas. Matter of fact, companies are constantly having to get patents on non-novel ideas, just to prevent others from doing it first. They ought to disband the Patent Office, and start over with employees willing to follow patent law. If they'd start rejecting non- novel ideas and publishing the rejections, then others would know they don't need to worry about getting a patent on an "all green web page", or something else as silly. Jim
