man attempts to patent a plot

Missed this one and it is about a month and a half old. But I doubt this
will fly. It really really fails the "non-obvious" section of patent
law. People who come from or are associated in many way with that
certain technical institute can describe levels of arrogance the rest of
us can only dream of. Of course I have meant lots of computer science
grads who assumes that since they can understand one complex field they
somehow have the same abilities in all. I kid you not that I have heard
things like: :"Well he understands the Unix Kernel and so brain surgery
would be easy for him to understand and do…" Of course the pewrson
who said this was talking about the BSD flavour of Unix, which come from
Berkeley not MIT. Although Unix was supposed to be a simpler form of
Multics which did pretty much come from MIT. Speasking of fun things
about anothetr such place, Caltech, Jack Parsons who was a real "rocket
scientist" in addition to be a person who was deeply into the magic(k)al
theories of Aleister Crowley. When one has intellectual power to spare
one ends up using it for all sorts of things, it is easy to get wowed by
one's own power and this can cause trouble or at least great social
enbarassmenent.

Have Fun,
Sends Steve



Pall Thayer wrote:

> Well, it had to happen. This guy's unbelievable. He admits that he's
> a crappy writer so he want's to make sure no-one can steal his plots.
> He thinks he's really good at coming up with plots. He's in Florida
> and, to tell the truth, I think he's been spending a little too much
> time in the sun. He sounds weird. He's got a law degree plus a
> Masters in nuclear engineering from MIT. He's also helping something
> called Sniplit.com obtain a patent for creating directories on
> computers as described here:
>
> "For example, Andrew Knight drafted and is currently prosecuting the
> patent application on a novel internet business method utilized by
> Sniplit.com. Sniplit.com is the first website of its kind to allow
> sellers in a local marketplace to: a) post a wealth of information
> about an item for sale, including photographs; b) choose his own
> unique web address; and c) advertise that self-chosen web address in
> local advertising media. For example, a person selling an antique
> couch may use Sniplit.com to avoid the high cost and limited
> description allowed by a typical classified ad, and may instead post
> photographs and a detailed description at the Sniplit.com website and
> place the following short, inexpensive classified ad: Tampa –
> Antique Couch, $250, see www.sniplit.com/couch."
>
> http://www.plotpatents.com
>
> more info at:
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story 051103183218268
>
>
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Pall Thayer wrote:

> Well, it had to happen. This guy's unbelievable. He admits that he's
> a crappy writer so he want's to make sure no-one can steal his plots.
> He thinks he's really good at coming up with plots. He's in Florida
> and, to tell the truth, I think he's been spending a little too much
> time in the sun. He sounds weird. He's got a law degree plus a
> Masters in nuclear engineering from MIT. He's also helping something
> called Sniplit.com obtain a patent for creating directories on
> computers as described here:
>
> "For example, Andrew Knight drafted and is currently prosecuting the
> patent application on a novel internet business method utilized by
> Sniplit.com. Sniplit.com is the first website of its kind to allow
> sellers in a local marketplace to: a) post a wealth of information
> about an item for sale, including photographs; b) choose his own
> unique web address; and c) advertise that self-chosen web address in
> local advertising media. For example, a person selling an antique
> couch may use Sniplit.com to avoid the high cost and limited
> description allowed by a typical classified ad, and may instead post
> photographs and a detailed description at the Sniplit.com website and
> place the following short, inexpensive classified ad: Tampa –
> Antique Couch, $250, see www.sniplit.com/couch."
>
> http://www.plotpatents.com
>
> more info at:
> http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story 051103183218268
>
>
> –
> Pall Thayer
> [email protected]
> http://www.this.is/pallit
>
>
>
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