Re: Song Copyrights and Patents

"William Sommerwerck" wrote ...
There's a patent in America for "Technique of swinging on a swing".
I think you infringe if you pull on alternate chains to move sideways.

A patent can only be infringed if it is used commercially.

It's hard to believe that such a patent was granted, as any examiner with
0.1 gram of common sense would have recognized that the technique has been
common knowledge as long as there have been swing sets.

"Common sense" is not allowed in the federal government
because it involves personal judgment and is thought to be
subjective by bureaucrats who have had the sense beat out
of them by their wasted hippie university professors.


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