Tim Bray points to some recent abuses of the patent system, more absurdity to add to out list. "IBM Receives Patent for Using Regular Expressions to Extract Information from Documents, Google Receives Patent for Highlighting of Search Results, and Microsoft Attempts to Patent Object Persistence." It's like the patent office is not even trying to find out if something had ever been invented; send them a form and they rubber stamp it (and take your money).
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