From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>,
"Patrick Kelly" <kameo76890@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] three sets of windows
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:38:09 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <twig.1272415089.95098@swcp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <000901cae664$346ac110$9d404330$@gmail.com>
off-topic...
> How the hell is a shape patentable?
Easy. Just like when I used to clip a playing card to a bicycle frame with a
clothespin to make noise. This was apparently finally patented in 2000 --
Sound generating device for spoked wheel (US Patent 6039338 issued 03/21/2000)
I'm digging around the the Australian patent for the spoked wheel (which I
think came out in 2000). Sorry I did not book mark it when I found it.
Or how about IBM's patent application for Outsourcing of Services (see
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/29/1734209)
There are some REALLY BAD patents out there...
EBo --
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-04-28 0:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-04-26 1:35 tammy turner
2010-04-26 9:24 ` Robert Raschke
2010-04-27 8:42 ` Bill Marcum
2010-04-27 13:08 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-27 14:20 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-27 15:10 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-30 17:49 ` [9fans] IL experiment lucio
2010-04-30 17:56 ` lucio
2010-04-27 22:54 ` [9fans] three sets of windows Tim Newsham
2010-04-27 23:16 ` John Floren
2010-04-27 23:22 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-27 23:48 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-28 0:38 ` EBo [this message]
2010-04-28 12:02 ` jake
2010-04-28 12:07 ` erik quanstrom
2010-04-28 13:35 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2010-04-28 14:26 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-28 14:40 ` lucio
2010-04-28 15:05 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-28 15:47 ` Gary V. Vaughan
2010-04-28 16:19 ` hiro
2010-04-28 16:57 ` Gorka Guardiola
2010-04-28 15:08 ` Patrick Kelly
2010-04-28 13:26 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-04-28 0:02 ` Karljurgen Feuerherm
2010-04-28 11:59 ` jake
2010-04-28 17:57 ` Tim Newsham
2010-04-28 19:51 ` Jacob Todd
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