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Zimphire
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Apr 28, 2004, 06:58 PM
 
     
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Apr 28, 2004, 07:04 PM
 
How silly of them.

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Apr 28, 2004, 08:26 PM
 
I'm gonna copyright that chime that every clock maker uses. Then charge everyone 10 cents for every clock that uses it.
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Agasthya
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Apr 28, 2004, 08:33 PM
 
I can't believe they were issued that patent.

It must be a narrow patent, if not, that's just abusrd.
     
Socially Awkward Solo
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Apr 28, 2004, 08:59 PM
 
Originally posted by Agasthya:
I can't believe they were issued that patent.
IT was issued?

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Apr 28, 2004, 09:16 PM
 
Here is my Patent idea:

Unique user names for online forums. I will first start here with this thread.
/hi
     
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Apr 29, 2004, 12:14 AM
 
There's so much prior art for this "patent" that it would be rendered completely unenforceable in court.

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Apr 29, 2004, 02:24 AM
 
yeah, probably true, ut I would use the courts that SCO is using to drive up the value of Fill in a ficticious company name here stock and sell it off before the company tanks because we have no real product. Ahh... How I miss the 90's.
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Apr 29, 2004, 07:51 AM
 
I'm thinking of scratch and sniff magazines and one for prescription windshields, that way when you forget your glasses, you're okay...
     
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Apr 29, 2004, 08:22 AM
 
Originally posted by His Dudeness:
I'm thinking of scratch and sniff magazines and one for prescription windshields, that way when you forget your glasses, you're okay...
     
   
 
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