Re: [OT] Utility window architecture question
Re: [OT] Utility window architecture question
- Subject: Re: [OT] Utility window architecture question
- From: Andreas Monitzer <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 00:49:05 +0200
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 10:29 , Steven Rogers wrote:
Brendan Younger wrote:
Or did the U.S. patent law go entirely mad?
The short answer is yes. You can get a patent for anything lately. A
protest patent application for what amounts to a child's swing was
recently granted - you might be able to turn up some news articles on
it with a web search.
At your service:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-
Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&
l=50&s1='6,368,227'.WKU.&OS=PN/6,368,227&RS=PN/6,368,227
or
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/15/2324253
quote:
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Patent Granted on Sideways Swinging
Posted by chrisd on 02-04-16 2:50
from the uspto-idiots-makes-the-ins-look-good dept.
Matt Van Gundy writes "In another brilliant move by the well loved U.S.
Patent and Trademark Office a patent (6,368,227) has been granted to a
Mr. Steven Olson for inventing the method of swinging sideways on a
swing. The patent even lays claim to "inducing a component of forward
and back motion into the swinging motion, resulting in a swinging path
that is generally shaped as an oval." I claim prior art, but perhaps I
am one of the few fortunate ones who enjoyed this method of swinging
long before its 'invention' by Mr. Steven Olson. " My favorite line from
the patent : "The user may even choose to produce a Tarzan-type yell
while swinging in the manner described, which more accurately replicates
swinging on vines in a dense jungle forest. Actual jungle forestry is
not required."
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I just love to be a European citizen... (until they grant software
patents here)
andy
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