Why Bill Gates Wants 3,000 New Patents

[A. Khattri]

On Sun, 31 Jul 2005, Ed Jabbour wrote:

> http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/31/business/yourmoney/31digi.html?
>
> A goal of 3000 patents/year!  E.g.,  "System and Method for Creating a Note
> Related to a Phone Call" and "Adding and Removing White Space From a
> Document."  Come again?

Same article also mentions they are filing more patentd to "keep up with
the Jones". I guess the idea that you have to have an original idea never
occurred to them...


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