__/ [ hug ] on Thursday 23 February 2006 12:21 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>If not laughable, this is worrisome:
>>
>>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sec ...
>>t2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7 ...
>>,000,180.WKU.&OS=PN/7,000,180&RS=PN/7,000,180
>>
>>OR
>>
>>http://tinyurl.com/j3o3f
>
> It is both laughable and worrisome. Can you imagine working in the
> patent office these days? How are they ever going to hire anyone who
> is capable of sufficient bullshit-filtering to keep from granting a
> patent on something like methods for filling the lungs with a suitable
> mixture of natural gasses? Some future history book will look back on
> the 21st century as the time when mankind became so full of itself
> that when it finally looked in the mirror it collapsed under the
> weight of the laughter.
Well, at least here in Europe, legislators have retained their sanity
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/06/eu_bins_swpat/
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