Microsoft Patents Uploading Data
Found on Techdirt on Monday, 09 August 2004
"Microsoft was granted a patent Tuesday for the Delayed Uploading of User Registration Data, which covers storing information collected from a user locally and transmitting it to a remote system once a connection is established." How is this possibly non-obvious to anyone with at least a tenth of a brain? Looks like more of the same where engineers are being pushed to patent anything, just because that's what companies do these days.
I cannot believe how dumb those guys at the patent office are. All those ridiculous patents should have never been granted in the first place. Makes me want to get a patent for "Supplying Lungs with Oxygen by Increasing and Decreasing the Chest Capacity".