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Yeah, it's funny that the patent office finally found a spine over someone trying to patent a sandwich with smushed edges. Didn't I see a Jakob Nielsen patent that nearly literally read, "Tool Tips for hyperlinks"? -- good grief, if you can point to two existing UI techniques and smush /them/ together, it's OBVIOUS!
Yeah, it's funny that the patent office finally found a spine over someone trying to patent a sandwich with smushed edges. Didn't I see a Jakob Nielsen patent that nearly literally read, "Tool Tips for hyperlinks"? -- good grief, if you can point to two existing UI techniques and smush /them/ together, it's OBVIOUS!
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Re: PB&J Patent ixnay'd
Sun, April 10, 2005 - 10:45 PM"Yamazaki Lunch Pack" is a line of sandwiches from the Yamazaki bakery here in Japan. Today I'm eating a "caramel and milk" sammy from them, which is also a couple of crust-less slices of bread which has had the edges mechanically pinched together. AFAIK Yamazaki has not felt the need to patent this, though the line has been available for years.
Here's a gallery for the curious, created by the compulsively driven:
metro.fw.cx/lunch/lindex.html
In short, Smuckers can smucker-up and smooch my pan-Pacific butt. -
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Re: PB&J Patent ixnay'd
Mon, April 11, 2005 - 4:27 AMI'm going to patent crustless pretzels.
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