Just my 2 cents worth...

This hit the news list on the Australian Palm Users Group WWW Site
yesterday and the issue of Prior art was high on the agenda.
How the heck could it even pass assessment, was the patent examiner
just bone lazy or simply blind and stupid.

Russell McMahon wrote:

>Microsoft granted patent on button click timing.
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>
>http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/NL/A05F9C5244A45A33CC256EA800334950
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>I must have missed the US patent office decision to exclude prior art from
>consideration in granting US patents
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>
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| Antonio (Nino) L. Benci                            |
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