[js1138]

And you are making sense again, this is downright scary.

Sounds like someone's been listening to cable TV commercials, and has some very expensive pieces of paper on the wall.

f.C is right when he asserts that most patents are worthless. And some very good ones are simply ignored by big corporations. FM radio was in the courts until at least a decade after the inventor died. My current company has a patent that is being infringed, but the offending company has calculated that the legal costs will prohibit any successful challenge.

[Aric2000]

Yep, I have had a friend with the same problem, that is why he uses the poor man's patent along with the normal patent program.

Woohoo #800?

[whattajoke]

True... My man James Randi makes it a personal mission of his to ferret out the bogus patents that are granted (free energy type stuff usually). I believe he secured a patent on the pb&j sandwich as a way of showing the absurdities of the US Patent office. May be Urban Legend, I'm not sure and don't feel like checking right now!