[Ecommerce] Aharonian- Does the PTO even know anything about .... sex?

[James Love]

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Subject: PATNEWS: Taping examiners; PTO search tools; patent non-reform
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 02:54:29 -0400
From: patnews@ns1.patenting-art.com

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     -  DOES THE PTO EVEN KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT .... SEX?

The following is a real patent that just issued.  In reading it, I get
so excited that I want to burst with pride at the PTO - time to erect
.. something.


     United States Patent      6,805,663
     Method of shared erotic experience and facilities for same

     What is claimed is:
     1. A method of sharing erotic experiences comprising the steps of:

     providing a building with a plurality of compartments and
     entertainment viewable from inside the compartments;
         (Greg note: a hotel that shows softcore pornn videos)

     admitting participants to the building and the compartments;
         (Greg note: a hotel with doors)

     starting the entertainment viewable from inside the compartments at
     a prescribed time;
         (Greg note: using the hotel's pay-per-view system to select
          the softcore pornn)

     starting a stimulation device for sexual pleasure in each of the
     compartments at a prescribed time; and,
         (Greg note: a hotel with vibrating beds and pay-per-view)

     transferring sounds from the participants between the compartments.
         (Greg note: a hotel with vibrating beds, pay-per-view and thin
         walls)

Or a massage parlor - or a XXX peep show.  Is the PTO totally clueless
about everything, even sex?  Seriously, without an inhouse collection of
sex devices and pornn videos and magazines, and trips to local peep
shows and massage parlors, can we say that the PTO has the capibility to
duly issue such patents?