Re: The death of the US Patent System...

["Norm" <normanmo@clark.net>]

On Wed,  8 Dec 1999 08:55:16 -0500 (EST), Erick Andrews wrote:

>>     IBM's site does list some rather odd patents.  Here's one of my
>>favorites: http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5501650
>>(some people have *WAY* too much time on their hands ;-)).
>>
>>
>>
>"...too much time on their hands..."  Pun intended?


     You caught me Erick (I'm happy to see I'm not the only one here
that appreciates the pun :-)).  But actually it looks pretty much like
a 'hands-free' device to me ;-).

>
>Unbelievable!!!  Geesh, Norm, it should come with a year's
>supply of Viagra.


     Yeah, it definitely makes you wonder.  It looks scary as hell to
me though.  I can only imagine what kind of damage something like that
could do if it were to malfunction <shudder>.

--
 ...Cheers,

 ...Norm

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