[kictanet] [Fwd: [governance] Two outrageous stories of so-called "intellectual property protection"]

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Check this out....

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Subject: 	[governance] Two outrageous stories of so-called "intellectual 
property protection"
Date: 	Fri, 22 Aug 2008 10:20:53 -0400
From: 	George Sadowsky <george.sadowsky at attglobal.net>
Reply-To: 	governance at lists.cpsr.org,George Sadowsky 
<george.sadowsky at attglobal.net>
To: 	governance at lists.cpsr.org



The two patents APPROVED this month are described below below.

It's truly remarkable that such giants of of the information industry 
can make such unbelievable leaps into the future.

I first thought that these were clever jokes.  They are not.  If you 
don't believe them, check them in:

        http://patft.uspto.gov/
 
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.htm&r=1&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PTXT&S1=7,407,089&OS=7,407,089&RS=7,407,089

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,415,666&OS=7,415,666&RS=7,415,666

or just Google the patent numbers for some interesting commentary.

Then take action to demand a complete overhaul of the patent system.

George

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AWARDED TO IBM!

On Tuesday,* IBM* was granted US Patent No. 7,407,089

 for storing a preference for* paper* or* plastic* grocery bags on 
customer cards and displaying a picture of said preference after a card 
is scanned. The invention, Big Blue explains, eliminates the 
'unnecessary inconvenience for both the customer and the cashier' that 
results when '*Paper* or* Plastic*?' must be asked. The patent claims 
also cover affixing a cute sticker of a* paper* or* plastic* bag to a 
customer card to indicate packaging preferences.





AWARDED TO MICROSOFT!

United States Patent    7,415,666
Sellers ,   et al.     August 19, 2008
Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments

Abstract
A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially 
exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether 
the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed. 
In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or Page Up keyboard 
key/button allows a user to begin at any starting vertical location 
within a page, and navigate to that same location on the next or 
previous page. For example, if a user is viewing a page starting in a 
viewing area from the middle of that page and ending at the bottom, a 
Page Down command will cause the next page to be shown in the viewing 
area starting at the middle of the next page and ending at the bottom of 
the next page. Similar behavior occurs when there is more than one 
column of pages being displayed in a row.


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