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But really how could a patent officer think such a thing is worthy of a patent?

Patent examiners don't have discretion. The special patent court (CAFC) is filled with patent lawyers that decide cases based on their own personal interest in a more expansive patent system. Except where the Supreme Court reviews their cases, they have total power to set precedents and those precedents always favor trolls over creators and innovators.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/how-a-rogue-appea...

I've traded comments with those guys on reddit. They live in a completely different reality. And people said Steve Jobs had a "reality distortion field." He had nothing on those guys.

Do you have any examples? I completely believe you, but I'd love to know exactly which flavor of mass delusion we're dealing with.

I'd have to do some search-fu in my reddit comment history. What I remember of it, is that the trolly-vagueness of patent claims is entirely necessary for the system to work as well as it does, and that the patent system is a well-honed machine essential to the proper functioning of our economy.

This might help: http://redditcommentsearch.com/

Agreed, this should never have been a patent.

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