Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
I could waste countless hours perusing patently silly, a blog featuring ridiculous “inventions” that have been granted patent protection.
What’s scary is that these inventions are mostly things that would be obvious (or obviously useless) to a sixth grader. If there are dozens of those, imagine how many thousands of illegitimate patents there are on subjects requiring some technical know-how to evaluate obviousness and usefulness.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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