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I think we can now accept that patents have reached a new level of absurdity: witness this:
The application covers, quite explicitly, having a company (we'll say Company A) that does not invent something, find a company (Company B) that did invent something, but chose to use trade secret protection, rather than patents. Then, the Company A files a patent covering Company B's technology, and then use the issued patent to get money out of Company B.
Who knew we'd see recursion used outside of software? If this isn't the most brazenly dumb patent ever, then I'm not sure what it. The bozos at Halliburton who filed it should all go soak their heads.
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