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Re: RE: (RE: Patents)

• To: "xml-dev@l..." <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: RE: (RE: Patents)
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 10:15:10 -0400
• In-reply-to: <01C1E786.C85A4E80.shear@a...>

4/19/2002 9:44:20 AM, "Timothy A. Shear" <shear@a...> wrote:

>  Maybe there is a precedence to be set against filing 
> frivolous patent claims?  Maybe a suit 
>should be filed? Maybe this is a defense against the business process cases 
>that seem to have no merit?

Parody is recognized as legitimate "free speech" under US law/interpretation of the 
Constitution, and this probably falls in under that category quite easily.  My take is 
that Daddy was making a point both to his son about how the process works, and to the 
PTO about how the process fails to work.   Most successful children's books/movies/etc. 
appeal to kids at one level and adults at various other levels, and this seems like a 
brilliant use of that design pattern :~)



 

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