Re:Amazon has patented the milkman, etc.
by monochromatic on Saturday February 09, 2013 @11:48PM
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Do you believe this based on anything in particular?
Re:Amazon has patented the milkman, etc.
by j-g-faustus on Sunday February 10, 2013 @02:27AM
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It's the only explanation I can find for the fact that patents like this are approved :)
(My alternative hypothesis revolves around evil conspiracies to extend property rights into the realm of generic ideas, with the aim to create a modern equivalent to the medieval landed gentry who can get rich entirely by rent-seeking[1]. All in all, I prefer the "examiners don't understand what they approve" explanation :)
Re:Amazon has patented the milkman, etc.
by AlexHamilton on Sunday February 10, 2013 @05:52AM
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I've just read all the claims and everything looks trivial once you realise that this is the basic specification for a repeating delivery system. Can you point to a single aspect of any of the claims that would reasonably be described as novel?
The OP.
Re:Amazon has patented the milkman, etc.
by monochromatic on Sunday February 10, 2013 @09:30AM
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Yeah, but we already discussed how the OP doesn't know what he's talking about.
So they approve the patent in self-defense, and don't notice that it's just a list of trivialities.