Re: Microsoft lost another law suite

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 08/22/03 

Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 19:20:11 +0000 (UTC)

Harry Slaughter <harry-removethis@slaughters.com> writes:

]why don't i patent a way to embed chips in fabric (take the chip and... er.. sew
]it into something). then in 10 years i can shake down everyone from novelty hat

Because you cannot patent something which someone else has already
described.