- From: Rotan Hanrahan <Rotan.Hanrahan@MobileAware.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 12:44:09 +0100
- To: "Jon Hanna" <jon@hackcraft.net>, "Charles McCathieNevile" <charles@sidar.org>
- Cc: <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-au@w3.org>
That's USPTO patent number 6,368,227 We live in a crazy world indeed. ---Rotan. -----Original Message----- From: Jon Hanna [mailto:jon@hackcraft.net] Sent: Tue 07/09/2004 12:33 To: Charles McCathieNevile Cc: Rotan Hanrahan; w3c-wai-gl@w3.org; w3c-wai-au@w3.org Subject: Re: Microsoft patented keyboard-navigation? > I see a job opportunity, for working at the US patent Office. (Along the > lines of "When I am an evil mastermind I will employ a 5-year-old to > review my plans for world domination and point out the flaws that any > 5-year-old could see"). I'm reminded of the patent lawyer who was trying to explain what he did for a living to his daughter and ended up with her having the patent on using a playground swing with a side-to-side rather than back-and-forth motion. No, I'm not making this up, really. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us." - Kurt Vonnegut.
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