Re: Aids in Africa

From: Kevin Gowen (kgowenNOSPAM_at_myfastmail.com)
Date: 12/06/04 

Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2004 23:35:08 -0500

Ｓｒｉｎ・Ｔｕａｒ wrote:
>
> Kevin Gowen wrote:
>
>>> Looking at the record of which patents have been granted tells you
>>> all youll ever need to know about the process.
>>
>>
>>
>> Ok, I'll bite. What does the record tell you? For example, patent
>> #6,813,996?
>>
>
> That you bit?
>
> (Lets stick to 1-click shopping, look and feel patents on ditzy colors,
> and "business method" patents. )

Ok, what's wrong with any of those things being patented, keeping the
requirements of patentability in mind? Offhand, I'm not sure what you
are referring to with the "ditzy colors" remark.

I hasten to add that Amazon's One-Click, which has acheived "McDonald's
cofee lawsuit" as a rallying point against patent law, has been granted
patents by patent offices other than the USPTO, such as the European
Patent Office. 

-- 
Kevin
"This is the best election night in history."--Democratic National 
Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe, Nov. 2, 2004, just before 8 p.m. EST

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