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<div>The two patents APPROVED this month are described below
below.</div>
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<div>It's truly remarkable that such giants of of the information
industry can make such unbelievable leaps into the future.</div>
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<div>I first thought that these were clever jokes. They are
not. If you don't believe them, check them in:</div>
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</x-tab>http://patft.uspto.gov/</div>
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>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOF<span
></span
>F&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G<span
></span
>&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=7,407,089&OS=7,407,089&RS=7,407,<span
></span>089</div>
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>http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOF<span
></span
>F&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G<span
></span
>&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,415,666&OS=7,415,666<span
></span>&RS=7,415,666</div>
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<div>or just Google the patent numbers for some interesting
commentary.</div>
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<div>Then take action to demand a complete overhaul of the patent
system.</div>
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<div>George</div>
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<div>AWARDED TO IBM!</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">On Tuesday,<b> IBM</b> was granted US
Patent No. 7,407,089</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"> for storing a preference for<b>
paper</b> or<b> plastic</b> grocery bags on customer cards and
displaying a picture of said preference after a card is scanned. The
invention, Big Blue explains, eliminates the 'unnecessary
inconvenience for both the customer and the cashier' that results when
'<b>Paper</b> or<b> Plastic</b>?' must be asked. The patent claims
also cover affixing a cute sticker of a<b> paper</b> or<b> plastic</b>
bag to a customer card to indicate packaging preferences.</font></div>
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<div>AWARDED TO MICROSOFT!</div>
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<div>United States Patent <x-tab>
</x-tab>7,415,666<br>
Sellers , et al.<x-tab>
</x-tab>August 19, 2008<br>
Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based
increments<br>
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Abstract<br>
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<div>A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a
substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page,
regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is
currently being viewed. In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or
Page Up keyboard key/button allows a user to begin at any starting
vertical location within a page, and navigate to that same location on
the next or previous page. For example, if a user is viewing a page
starting in a viewing area from the middle of that page and ending at
the bottom, a Page Down command will cause the next page to be shown
in the viewing area starting at the middle of the next page and ending
at the bottom of the next page. Similar behavior occurs when there is
more than one column of pages being displayed in a row.</div>
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<div><font color="#000000">George
Sadowsky <span
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george.sadowsky@gmail.com</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">2182 Birch
Way <span
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george.sadowsky@attglobal.net</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">Woodstock, VT
05091-8155 <span
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http://www.georgesadowsky.org/</font></div>
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