ABA Network has a Story on all the stupid patents the the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been issuing. 1-Click ordering is of course the most famous example. People like NoWebPatents.org try to talk some sense, but it seems to fall on deaf ears.
\”Law professor Pamela Samuelson of the University of California, Berkeley, charges that the PTO \”simply can’t be competent in issuing [business-method] patents\” because of examiners’ insufficient training and \”woefully inadequate prior art\”—the legal term for previously published descriptions of a patented invention. \”Besides,\” she says, \”the Constitution was intended to allow patents for technology. And business methods aren’t that.\”
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