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As much as the USPTO can be a total joke sometimes, this particular patent was rejected and marked as abandoned.

    Transaction History
    Date	Transaction Description
    12-06-2006	 Mail Abandonment for Failure to Respond to Office Action
    12-05-2006	 Aband. for Failure to Respond to O. A.
    04-27-2006	 Mail Non-Final Rejection
    04-26-2006	 Non-Final Rejection

See: http://portal.uspto.gov/external/portal/pair (Publication Number: 20060071122)

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Basically this is just troll-bait because there was no reason to post it and people are voting it up based solely on the title -- a bad habit we're forming here.

Hm, you're right; sorry. In hindsight, this post would have been better suited to Reddit, as I posted it simply because I thought the patent's content would be fun to analyze, plus it was funny.

I didn't mean to say anything about the patent system itself, just this patent.

I guess he never came back from his last jump...

apparently the examiner tested the patent's claims and it resulted in only teleporting part of the examiner's body. he was not amused, and rejected it. before bleeding to death.

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