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Does that really matter? It apply for a patent and you can patent stuff that is clearly not patentable and sue people left and right. :-/

It is sad this serious problem has been so poorly addressed for so long. If we are lucky in the next couple of years at least the most egregious attacks on business using a broken patent and legal system will be reduced, though even that may fail to be done :-(

Too late!? Never! Just change the wording slightly and they'll issue it to you again as well. A few well aimed s///g's is about all it takes these days.

Aww man! I had this idea too.

Are they doing anything with this patent?

They should start using that against patent trolls.

What if they acquired a license? We would have come full circle, proving the idiocy of this system and, implicitly, that the intelligence of those who administer it is quite limited at best.