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  Justin R, 11 Nov 2005 @ 10:22am

  
  

  enough is enough

  The entire Patent and Copyright systems need to be smashed. It's out of hand what these criminals are getting away with.
  
  I am tired of my tax and consumer dollars being wasted on patents that should never have been granted. Just as I am tired of being made to feel paying someone for some words over instruments is a privalige and that I'm a criminal suspect for wanting to play it on whatever device I choose to.

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    re, 11 Nov 2005 @ 11:11am

    
    

    Re: enough is enough

    You think that's crazy? check this out...
    
    from: http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?NewsID=1665
    
    Microsoft has been granted a patent for "Time-based hardware button for application launch". To you and me, the mouse double-click.
    
    US patent 6,727,830, filed 12 July 2002 and granted 27 April this year, is described: "A method and system are provided for extending the functionality of application buttons on a limited resource computing device."
    
    
    so yeah... they pattented the double click.
    

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      Mike (profile), 11 Nov 2005 @ 11:30am

      
      

      Re: enough is enough

      Yeah, we mentioned that when it happened. :)

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  SV, 11 Nov 2005 @ 1:36pm

  
  

  ignore

  Some countries started producing bird flu medicines although it's patented and they've not obtained patent rights, proceeded anyway to save lives.
  
  Next step is that people should just stop respecting ridiculous patents and go on with their job.
  
  If everybody did it, the system would die.
  
  Am I anarchyst or whatever? Call me that.. but this entire situation is becoming ridiculous.

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  Mark, 11 Nov 2005 @ 2:36pm

  
  

  This has got to stop...

  How can this be patentable? Do the people in the patent offices not live in the same world? You can go to any number of web sites and see the things these patents are for. This is a joke? So much for innovation. A aptent should protect a real, new innovative idea from being used straight away by other people. If someone spends time and resources on a really, truely new idea, then a patent is a great way to get rewards for it. Patenting ideas that are quite obvious and not at all new is unbelievable. Why isn't anything being done about this?!? Yeah, i know... no one with enough clout cares enough.

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