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Wow.... I'm speechless...![]()
Yep, and they actually awarded those patents ???
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- United States Patent No. 6,263,507 issued for an invention entitled "Browser for Use in Navigating a Body of Information, With Particular Application to Browsing Information Represented By Audiovisual Data."
- United States Patent No. 6,034,652 issued for an invention entitled "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device."
- United States Patent No. 6,788,314 issued for an invention entitled "Attention Manager for Occupying the Peripheral Attention of a Person in the Vicinity of a Display Device."
- United States Patent No. 6,757,682 issued for an invention entitled "Alerting Users to Items of Current Interest."
Sooner or later either more companies will move to EU, where no such dumb software patent system exists or US will finally change their pattent office.
He could just sell the yacht.![]()
Here's a link to one of the patents:
Sounds to me like Mr. Allen owes me some money for all the freaking pop-up adds and other annoyances that are in my peripheral.
Some of these patents sound so vague. Ok posting here first ... I am going to patent "oxygen exchange by humans" so every breath will cost you a royalty fee.
Simply said. You can't sue over or even patent an idea.