Slashdot is pointing to an article about another broad Internet patent granted recently.
This might be a candidate for the title of "Most Obnoxious Patent". Broader than the Pacific Ocean, with 40 claims written in an abstract and indigestible language. No one would bother to read this kind of trash if not forced to do so by the patent system.
One of these days, people will get fed up with Internet patents. A large coalition of reason will look for the most annoying patents - as an object of determined and organized collective opposition with all legal means.
This patent might be considered at that time.
Posted by Karl-Friedrich Lenz at April 22, 2003 01:48 PM | TrackBack