Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development 173
theodp writes "With its just-published patent application for Developing Software Components Based on Brain Lateralization, Microsoft provides yet another example of just how broken the patent system is. Microsoft argues that its 'invention' of having a Program Manager act as an arbitrator/communicator between a group of right-brained software users and left-brained software developers mimics 'the way that the brain communicates between its two distinct hemispheres.' One of the 'inventors' is Ray Ozzie's Technical Strategist. If granted, the patent could be used to exclude others from making, using, or selling the 'invention' for 17 years."
BOFH (Score:5, Funny)
You say that as if it's a bad thing (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You say that as if it's a bad thing (Score:5, Funny)
Except that would only affect people with two legs, not everyone.
How telling, and how sad (Score:5, Funny)
"At Microsoft, these two halves of the brain come together in the colon."
Re:You say that as if it's a bad thing (Score:3, Funny)
Wrong title (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft Seeks Patent On Brain-Based Development (Score:2, Funny)
This must be patentable... (Score:3, Funny)
I think anyone who reads the article can plainly see that Microsoft has apparently invented a nearly perfect process for blowing their smoke up someones else's ass... I believe this makes them the proud inventors of the remote smoked ham... Bravo Gentlemen!
When they market it... (Score:2, Funny)
Two degrees of separation... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft can pry my Corpus Callosum from my cold, dead brain. I think either God can claim or Darwin can demonstrate some sort of prior art here. Just need to schedule a court appearance for one of them...
A idea (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The patent office - retarding development? (Score:5, Funny)
All Americans suck because all generalizations are false.
Re:Metric? (Score:3, Funny)
"I'm nearly two kilometers tall."
Prior Art. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:BOFH (Score:2, Funny)
Re:It's even funnier (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Karma Bedamned! (Score:2, Funny)
Prior Art (Score:3, Funny)