Comment Re:Oh really? (Score 1) 778
If you can't charge for drugs, nobody makes them, and everybody dies. Perfect system huh?
IBM Wants To Patent Restaurant Waits 154
theodp writes "If all goes IBM's way, it'll soon constitute patent infringement if Bennigan's gives you a free lunch for being inconvenienced by a long wait for your meal. Big Blue is seeking a patent for its Method and Structure for Automated Crediting to Customers for Waiting, the purported 'invention' of three IBM researchers, which IBM notes, 'could be implemented completely devoid of computerization or automation of any kind.' Can we count on IBM to withdraw this patent claim, or will Big Blue weasel out of its patent reform pledge again?"
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With all the fancy scientists in the world, why can't they just once build a nuclear balm?
