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From: Derek Broughton
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 23:46

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clifto wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> Wolf Kirchmeir wrote:
>>> I'm waiting for some leech to patent the answer to a first year
>>> electronics course problem -- if that hasn't been done already.
>> 
>> Similar things have certainly been done.  I should be able to dig up the
>> (recent) patent for the rubber tire swing... (apparently filed as a
>> demonstration of just how simple it is to get "prior art" past the patent
>> office).
> 
> Of course you know that someone patented the "process" of using a laser
> pointer to play with your cat.
> 
No, I didn't - but if you'd asked me "Has someone patented the process of
using a laser pointer to play with a cat", I'd have had to guess the answer
was "yes" :-)
-- 
derek

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From: Derek Broughton <news@pointerstop.ca>
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Subject: Re: RIM's troubles not over!
Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:46:01 -0300
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