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____/ Ian Hilliard on Sunday 22 Nov 2009 20:46 : \____
> Both KDE and Gnome have sudo with a GUI. The US patent office must
> clearly have no clue as to the patentability of concepts for which they
> are issuing patents. Even worst than that, they then help support the
> companies that have received patents that should never have been issued.
>
> For me, this is the core of the problem with software patents as they
> currently exist.
They just make more money if they approver everything, with exceptions:
Patent That: Reporter Invents Way to Reach PTO Director
"Journalists who cover Washington know the drill: top bureaucrats can be very
hard to get through to, especially when you need to reach them the most.
"So when ABA Journal senior writer Terry Carter got nowhere in his recent effort
to reach Patent and Trademark Office director David Kappos through spokesman
Peter Pappas for a story he was writing, he decided on a characteristically
novel approach: on Tuesday he drafted and posted a humorous patent application
for a "method to get an interview with USPTO Director David Kappos." Edward
Adams, editor and publisher of the ABA Journal, wrote in this story at the
Journal Web site, "We figured the problem was that Carter was not speaking the
agency's language."
http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/11/patent-that-reporter-finds-novel-way-
to-reach-pto-head.html
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