Patents and mass copywriting
Am I right in thinking Borland were wiped off the map by someone who had patented a common mathematical symbol. That they had blatantly stolen Borland's intellectual concept and its product design was of no interest to the judge. If you can patent the use of a symbol, surely you can patent a common mathematical shape. I used have a cigarette box of exactly the same shape and size.
I am not a web designer but some time ago I experimented with developing a generic web navigating design tool. Having produced an outline of what I required, I spent some time thinking up a name. I hit on a brilliant name for it. I browsed to see was the term in use. It had been copywrited by M.S. As far as I could see no work had been done on the concept, however its description had been so well drafted that it was an exact description of what I was planning.It was vague enough to cover anything that could be done in this area and clever enough to do so exactly.
It strikes me that M.S. must employ persons to sit all day dreaming up possible copywrite scenarios.
