http://www.wapatents.com/2009/07/who-is-big-baboon-inc.html
How can a company patent:
WTF? If that's a true patent, then pretty much every company in the world is in violation. What's next, somebody going to patent "ability to type things into a computer using a device named keyboard in an effort to make computer perform certain action"
How can a company patent:
[a]n automated end-to-end business process for product sales that uses a relational database management system, the process comprising the steps of:
a first user inputting a customer payment record to the database ...;
automatically generating a customer invoice;
a second user inputting customer payment record to the database ...;
automatically determining a status of the customer payment ...; and
during each of the foregoing inputting steps, qualifying user inputs using experiential constraints, based on the then-current state of the database as a whole
WTF? If that's a true patent, then pretty much every company in the world is in violation. What's next, somebody going to patent "ability to type things into a computer using a device named keyboard in an effort to make computer perform certain action"
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