Further to my moan of the other day, Apple have just had some of their patents relating to scrolling overturned as not having enough novelty.
While I have nothing against Apple as a company, I have a huge problem with the increasing, almost inconsequential ease with which patents are granted and the use of patents as a way for large companies to make money by suing another.
Patenting the position of a scroll control or the colour of a button is utterly ridiculous. If the colour was one not in the spectrum than that would be novel. Otherwise SHUT UP!
Patenting gene sequences decoded from people is ridiculous. If the gene sequence is one constructed from scratch to do a job, that's programming and should be patented. Otherwise SHUT UP!
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