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Patents
In a piece of commentary on runaway e-commerce patents, Dave Winer came
up with the following interesting proposal, that of getting a patent on
the strategy of getting e-commerce patents:
http://davenet.userland.com/2000/02/28/noMorePesosForSenorBezos
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Then I came up with an idea for a business process patent. Here's how it
goes.
"A method for eliminating competition consists of filing a patent
application with the United States Patent and Trademark Office combined
with campaign contributions to major political parties, so as to cause
competitors to be unable to offer certain high-value features or raise
investment capital."
What do you think?
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Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Field of Biochemistry, Cornell University
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