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Tommy Johnson tommy@7x.com
Wed, 17 Oct 2001 16:34:36 -0800


> On Wednesday 17 October 2001 18:47, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> > +-------[ Jerome Alet ]----------------------
> >
> > | On Wed, 17 Oct 2001, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote:
> > | > There are some bizarre unenforcable patents out there if
> you look hard
> > | > enough.
> > |
> > | The fact is that patent offices, particularly in the US and
> AU are just
> > | plain stupid or very money hungry.
> > |
> > | IIRC an oz patented the wheel last year !
> >
> > Now that's just creative! d8)
>
> Someone here recently got a copyright on a huge set of the
> possible melodies
> produced by a touch-tone telephone. Most of them just happen to
> correspond to
> phone numbers. The theory is that you can buy your phone number's
> melody from
> them for a trivial fee, and then sue someone for copyright
> infringement when
> they "play" your melody without your prior consent (ie. cold-calling
> marketing companies :)

Hmmmm. Maybe I should patent a mailing list. *Oops - maybe I shouldn't have
said anything yet, now I gotta beat all those who are trying to steal my
idea.*

Oh, and by the way, I'm the father of the desktop.

Tommy
Innovation: The Best Way To Predict The Future ... Is To Create It.