[governance] Two outrageous stories of so-called "intellectual property protection"

[George Sadowsky]

The two patents APPROVED this month are described below below.

It's truly remarkable that such giants of of the information industry 
can make such unbelievable leaps into the future.

I first thought that these were clever jokes.  They are not.  If you 
don't believe them, check them in:

	http://patft.uspto.gov/

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=7,407,089&OS=7,407,089&RS=7,407,089

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,415,666&OS=7,415,666&RS=7,415,666

or just Google the patent numbers for some interesting commentary.

Then take action to demand a complete overhaul of the patent system.

George

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AWARDED TO IBM!

On Tuesday, IBM was granted US Patent No. 7,407,089

  for storing a preference for paper or plastic 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 'Paper or Plastic?' must be asked. The patent 
claims also cover affixing a cute sticker of a paper or plastic bag 
to a customer card to indicate packaging preferences.





AWARDED TO MICROSOFT!

United States Patent 	7,415,666
Sellers ,   et al.	August 19, 2008
Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments

Abstract

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.


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