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New USPO considers story line patent
[link|http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/11/emw303435.htm|eMediaWire]
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will publish history\ufffds first \ufffdstoryline patent\ufffd application today from an application filed in November, 2003. Inventor Andrew Knight will assert publication-based provisional patent rights against the entertainment industry.

Falls Church, Virginia (PRWEB) November 3, 2005 -- Further to a policy of publishing patent applications eighteen months after filing, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is scheduled to publish history\ufffds first \ufffdstoryline patent\ufffd application today. The publication will be based on a utility patent application filed by Andrew Knight in November, 2003, the first such application to claim a fictional storyline.

Not quite granted yet, but the lawyers looking at the case think he has a good chance of getting it past. I wonder if I can get the rights to 'divine entity creates physical universe?'

The whole patent system needs reform, unfortunatly the political process in the US is so broken that any reform done now would be drafted by RIAA and Hollywood law firms.

Jay
New ROFL - imagine the 'prior art' arguments
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New Some would object to calling that fiction
I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
New Too late - Shakespeare already put most plots into PD



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     USPO considers story line patent - (JayMehaffey) - (3)
         ROFL - imagine the 'prior art' arguments -NT - (imric) - (1)
             Some would object to calling that fiction -NT - (ben_tilly)
         Too late - Shakespeare already put most plots into PD -NT - (tuberculosis)

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