March 25, 2003
Another stupid patent
When are they going to get serious about reforming patents? They just keep patenting the most obvious things: F5 files patent, lawsuits on Web session persistence: The Seattle company has been awarded U.S. patent number 6,473,802, entitled "Method and System for Storing Load Balancing Information with an HTTP cookie." This technology stores a cookie on a customer's computer to allow that customer to reconnect to the same server he or she previously visited on a Web site. I am still awaiting word on the status of my patent application, "Method of storing, recording, and accessing information using manual digits including fingers, thumbs or toes." I figure I'll start by suing Dixon-Ticonderoga for back royalties on the #2 pencil.
Posted by David at March 25, 2003 12:56 PM | EditI will sue you for infringement of my patent on the "virtual calculation of numbers using electronic synapses of the human brain in conjunction with the utterance of phrases such as 'umm... carry the one' and the occasional use of digits and appendages for the temporary storage of numerical data"