HAHAHA ... Imagine that, patenting 1 and 0 ... might as well patent A-Z as
well, and 0-9.

That was a good gag article, not so far from reality in many respects.

MJ Brush

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Hord" <gaidinmd@HOTMAIL.COM>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [EE]: Microsoft granted patent on button click timimg


> This whole thread reminds me of a bit article from The
> Onion from quite a while ago...
>
> http://home.att.net/~jbcole/humor/Microsoft_patents.htm
>
> Mike H.
>
> >I wonder what Xerox and Apple will have to say about
> >this?  Mice have *always* had different functions
> >depending on the timing/cadence of a clicks - Macs would
> >be unusable without this.
> >
> >This wouldn't have got past the girl on reception at the
> >UK patent office - and I suspect in most of the rest of
> >the World too.  You cannot patent an idea (or software,
> >or genes, or business processes, or a number of other
> >things) in the UK, only an object.  I think this is true
> >of the rest of Europe, too.
> >
> >I wonder why the US has gone so far from the original
> >principles of patents?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >Howard Winter
> >St.Albans, England
> >
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