Stupid Patent of the Month: Storage Cabinets on a Computer

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jul 3, 2016 8:53 AM EDT
EFF; By Daniel Nazer
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How do you store your paper files? Perhaps you leave them scattered on your desk or piled on the floor. If you’re more organized, you might keep them in a cabinet. This month’s stupid patent, US Patent No. 6,690,400 (the ’400 patent), claims the idea of using “virtual cabinets” to graphically represent data storage and organization. While this is bad, the worse news is that the patent’s owner is suing just about anyone who runs a website.

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