Comments on: Microsoft now owns your body – pay up! http://beckscafe.com/2006/12/01/microsoft-now-owns-your-body-pay-up/ Coffee, Chocolate & Love Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:36:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rebecca http://beckscafe.com/2006/12/01/microsoft-now-owns-your-body-pay-up/#comment-83 Sat, 02 Dec 2006 13:09:30 +0000 http://sun.asmallorange.com/~becki/2006/12/01/microsoft-now-owns-your-body-pay-up/#comment-83 Hi Brenda,

Thank you for leaving your comment. I wonder if this opens the door to Cuisinart patenting the human body for food processing? I’m kidding but I think your right when you wrote above regardingn the USPTO letting this kind of thing through. It’s like, as long as there is a logical argument then it’s okay, no matter how absurd the premise.

I bet Microsoft has a bevy lawyers waiting in the wings ready to defend their human body patent at all cost!

Thank you again for leaving your comment!

Becki

]]> By: BrendaS http://beckscafe.com/2006/12/01/microsoft-now-owns-your-body-pay-up/#comment-82 Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:22:53 +0000 http://sun.asmallorange.com/~becki/2006/12/01/microsoft-now-owns-your-body-pay-up/#comment-82 Apparently, MS only owns you if you use your body as part of a communications network.

Next thing, they’ll be filing for a patent for resistors, wires, capacitors, and diodes.

I suppose the worst part is really the fact that the USPTO let’s things like this through.

Is it asking too much that the USPTO have staff on-hand to check for “basic obviousness” of a patent claim? Years ago, I learned in Basic Electronics that the human body is effectively a resistor. Something like this “patent” should never have been granted.

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