Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on February 01, 2005 04:30 PM
There is just too many broad patents.
Here are a few stupid ones from Microsoft: Tabbed Browsing (no tab button functionality on a browser) Double Clicking Trash Can Fast User Switching (unix/linux always had this: atl+F#)
It seams like the patent office is just patenting anything that comes their way. There are even patents that are the same as others. Innovators use fancy language to cover the obviousness.
Like trademarks however, if you don't protect your patents, it can lose its luster, like trademarks.
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Re:Remove Patents
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on February 01, 2005 04:30 PMHere are a few stupid ones from Microsoft:
Tabbed Browsing (no tab button functionality on a browser)
Double Clicking
Trash Can
Fast User Switching (unix/linux always had this: atl+F#)
It seams like the patent office is just patenting anything that comes their way. There are even patents that are the same as others. Innovators use fancy language to cover the obviousness.
Like trademarks however, if you don't protect your patents, it can lose its luster, like trademarks.
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