__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 09 February 2007 10:20 \__
> Doug Mentohl <doug_mentohl@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> 'Amazon was granted a patent .. that covers a technique for allowing users
>> "to request access to one or more electronic images of pages in a physical
>> text."'
>>
>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070208-8798.html
>
> Will someone *please* put a stop to the USPTO - they are beyond any
> reasonably acceptable degree of incompetence. Probably the only slight
> positive out of this is that their ludicruous behaviour will probably
> spell the end of the whole patent system, which might not necessarily be
> a good thing.
They had second thoughts the last time they tried to pull something like
this.
Patents for dynamic Web pages to get another look
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| An enormous number of Web sites use some form of dynamic processing,
| often through programming languages, such as PHP, that are designed
| to create Web pages based on database queries.
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