US Pat. Off. Take 2 (It's worse than you think)

[cjolley]

It's not just software patents after all.

US Patent Office proven to be high on crack, or possibly LSD.

Looking back from the 22nd century, future historians will marvel at the current era's obsession with extending intellectual property rights well past any reasonable limit. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the United States Patent and Trademark Office's determination to grant a patent to even the most absurd claims that cross its desk. Four years ago a patent attorney in Minnesota named Peter Olson demonstrated this by submitting the following patent in the name of his five year-old son, Steven. The patent was granted. Read it and weep.

http://www.slate.com/id/2144722/entry/2144723/

[Dr Mordrid]

Thank God it was eventually reviewed and cancelled

Dr. Mordrid

[cjolley]

Thank God it was eventually reviewed and cancelled

Dr. Mordrid

Was it?
There is no reference to that on the USPTO site.
I hope you are right.

[Dr Mordrid]

Last page. Click on #8 & read the highlighted text.

http://www.slate.com/id/2144722/entry/2144730/

Dr. Mordrid

[cjolley]

Thanks God indeed.
But there is still this one and thousands of others that should be pitched out.