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Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:09 am
by Foo
While you're celebrating the end of an irritating advert, the idea of free markets takes one for the team.
...can patent something obvious, and then prevent someone else from doing that obvious thing.

Lets hang our heads in shame.

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:17 am
by R00k
That's insane.

Re: haha, no more of those stupid Boost Mobile commercials!

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:31 am
by Chupacabra
riddla wrote:http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/18/2235254&tid=187&tid=155

So long suckaz!
your cellphone is ringing

Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2005 10:02 am
by Dek
Foo wrote:While you're celebrating the end of an irritating advert, the idea of free markets takes one for the team.
...can patent something obvious, and then prevent someone else from doing that obvious thing.

Lets hang our heads in shame.
Welcome to democracy...
The U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted the injunction at the request of Freedom Wireless, which in May was awarded $128 million when an eight-person jury found BCGI's services infringed on Freedom's patents