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   enough is enough

   

   Justin R, Nov 11th, 2005 @ 10:22am

   
   

   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: enough is enough

   

   re, Nov 11th, 2005 @ 11:11am

   
   

   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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   Re: enough is enough

   

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

   
   

   Yeah, we mentioned that when it happened. :)

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   ignore

   

   SV, Nov 11th, 2005 @ 1:36pm

   
   

   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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   This has got to stop...

   

   Mark, Nov 11th, 2005 @ 2:36pm

   
   

   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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