Reply to post: Re: Oh good grief

Google plots cop detection for auto autos

Captain DaFt

Re: Oh good grief

"I would really like to see the stuff they reject (if any), because that must be pretty dire not to pass."

Worse than you think. A microsoft employee once slipped a patent for an apple tree into the patents MS sent to the USPO. It was granted.

(Latter withdrawn, only after the Public Patent Foundation publicised it.)

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