Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.
Re: Do I have this right?
Author: Nick Sweeney Posted: 8/14/2000; 12:16:53 PM Topic: Do I have this right? Msg #: 19709 (In response to 19708) Prev/Next: 19708 / 19710
No, he's patented Collector-targeted memorabilia articles, and a a method of producing collector-targeted memorabilia articles by affixing one or more integral collectible attractiveness attributes to each selected base article. That this legalistic definition happens to include autographed baseballs is simply a happy coincidence...Note that the prior art references include baseball cards (1994), the plastic card holder (1991) and promotional coupons (1991). It's a joke. It's risible. It just proves that business-method patents and software patents are linguistic rather than palpable. What happened to the days when a patent came with a schematic, or a process diagram? Patent holders invent ways of saying things, not ways of doing them. And the only people I want to pay for saying things in a new way are poets.
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