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   Scarper, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 1:11pm

   
   

   The NYT points out that if you can patent tax strategies you could also patent a legal defense strategy. Clearly allowing patents on the way citizens can defend themselves against over-taxation or criminal allegations is ridiculous. Business method patents must be curtailed.

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   patenting legal defenses

   

   agent888, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 1:25pm

   
   

   note to self: patent the chewbacca defense strategy

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   new patent

   

   new patent, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 1:28pm

   
   

   Is there a patent on the patent process? If not, it's mine!
   
   seriously.. glad to see mainstream news publications taking notice.

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   trex, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 1:58pm

   
   

   "Is there a patent on the patent process? If not, it's mine! "
   
   Refer to my recent patent application "A Methodological Process By Which Limited Monopolies for the Implementation of Invented Processes May Be Examined, Adjudicated, Granted and Protected."

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 2:17pm

   
   

   All the patent does, is allow the person (or usually corporation) holding it to reap the rewards for as long as its valid. That'd be fine and good and all if the person responsible for the invention got all the rewards. I say once a patent gets sold and becomes a piece of property for the public, what ever it concerns also then becomes the property of the entire public.

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   IP, progress, choose one.

   

   misanthropic humanist, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 3:49pm

   
   

   Patents are an unconscionable idea in a modern civilised society. I am in good company holding this belief along with Mr Einstein and Mr Jefferson, but it's proving hard to enlighten ordinary folk who have been so utterly brainwashed by the corporations.
   
   Anybody of moderate intelligence who makes a dispassionate and honest analysis of intellectual property will arrive at the conclusion that it impedes progress.
   
   Besides, there are no inventions, only discoveries. Nobody who believes in God or creationism can consistently assert the case for intellectual property. But mere logical impossibility has never stood in the way of these greedy retards before.
   
   So, as a freethinking athiest, or a religious conservative you must reject intellectual property as a concept. It is unique in being anti-capitalist, anti-socialist and spanning all creeds and religions as an abhorent notion.
   
   The only supporters of the idea are a disproportionately vocal minority who have a vested interest in keeping intellectual property, and those who do not understand it.

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   Anonymous Coward, Oct 31st, 2006 @ 7:35pm

   
   

   Well said misanthropic humanist!

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   Re: chewbacca defense strategy

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 1st, 2006 @ 4:09am

   
   

   Patenting the chewbacca defense strategy DOES NOT MAKE SENCE!
   
   Why would a wookie living on Endor have anything patentable about it.
   
   Therfore the chewbacca defense strategy is non-obvious.
   
   Therfore the chewbacca defense strategy is Patentable.
   
   QED

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