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Re: [News] New Signs of USPTO's Sheer Lunacy

  • Subject: Re: [News] New Signs of USPTO's Sheer Lunacy
  • From: Homer <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:46:36 +0100
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Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> Michael Jackson: Method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion
> 
> http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=MAUgAAAAEBAJ&dq=Michael+Jackson+shoe

At first I thought this had to be a joke, but no - apparently it's serious!

Now, look at the number (and age) of the so-called "citations". These
are the ideas from which this "invention" is derived, the earliest of
which (registered) dates back to 1913!

How can this idea therefore be claimed as exclusive property?

-- 
K.
http://slated.org

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| "The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which
| the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf
| denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty.
| Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of
| the word liberty; and precisely the same difference prevails today
| among human creatures." ~ Abraham Lincoln
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