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	<title>Comments on: World&#8217;s 1st storyline patent?</title>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-24057</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If there are indeed only seven actual basic plots of storyline that occur within the human existance, I would think the &#039;prior art&#039; provision of the patent laws would cause this insipidly ridiculous idea to implode.

--TurboGeek</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If there are indeed only seven actual basic plots of storyline that occur within the human existance, I would think the &#8216;prior art&#8217; provision of the patent laws would cause this insipidly ridiculous idea to implode.</p>
<p>&#8211;TurboGeek</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-24056</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 20:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m copyrighting &quot;Once Upon a Time&quot; and will be submitting a patent application for any storyline that occured &quot;Once Upon a Time.&quot;  These assets will be managed by the Once Upon a Time Corporation under the trademarked Once Upon a Time brand of storyline.  The Once Upon a Time corporation&#039;s business plan calls for opening subsidiaries such as the &quot;A Long, Long Time Ago, Far, Far Away&quot; division, &quot;It was a Dark and Stormy Night&quot; division, and a boutique operation &quot;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times&quot; to handle any story lines about unhappy French people with poor personal hygeine (through no fault of their own.)

Franchises such as &quot;In the beginning&quot; and &quot;Thou shalt not&quot; will handle storylines of a religious nature diversifying to franchises such as &quot;Nobody&#039;s Perfect&quot; for gay themed story lines.  Financing for the new enterprise has been arranged privately with &quot;Greed is Good&quot; Venture Capital and Wankerman Partners.  Legal Representation is being provided by Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, Harvard Square, Cambridge Massachusetts.

--TurboGeek</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m copyrighting &#8220;Once Upon a Time&#8221; and will be submitting a patent application for any storyline that occured &#8220;Once Upon a Time.&#8221;  These assets will be managed by the Once Upon a Time Corporation under the trademarked Once Upon a Time brand of storyline.  The Once Upon a Time corporation&#8217;s business plan calls for opening subsidiaries such as the &#8220;A Long, Long Time Ago, Far, Far Away&#8221; division, &#8220;It was a Dark and Stormy Night&#8221; division, and a boutique operation &#8220;It was the best of times, it was the worst of times&#8221; to handle any story lines about unhappy French people with poor personal hygeine (through no fault of their own.)</p>
<p>Franchises such as &#8220;In the beginning&#8221; and &#8220;Thou shalt not&#8221; will handle storylines of a religious nature diversifying to franchises such as &#8220;Nobody&#8217;s Perfect&#8221; for gay themed story lines.  Financing for the new enterprise has been arranged privately with &#8220;Greed is Good&#8221; Venture Capital and Wankerman Partners.  Legal Representation is being provided by Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe, Harvard Square, Cambridge Massachusetts.</p>
<p>&#8211;TurboGeek</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-24045</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 19:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hollywood has one basic plot:

&quot;A greedy capitalist wraps a poorly written and often ripped off plot in marketing. People flock to give him cash&quot;.

Remember - just because he&#039;s applied for a patent, it doesn&#039;t mean he&#039;ll get it. First it has to be decided if the subject matter is patentable, and then if the &quot;invention&quot; is novel and inventive&quot;. Though I haven&#039;t seen the actual application, it would be unlikely that it gets granted.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hollywood has one basic plot:</p>
<p>&#8220;A greedy capitalist wraps a poorly written and often ripped off plot in marketing. People flock to give him cash&#8221;.</p>
<p>Remember &#8211; just because he&#8217;s applied for a patent, it doesn&#8217;t mean he&#8217;ll get it. First it has to be decided if the subject matter is patentable, and then if the &#8220;invention&#8221; is novel and inventive&#8221;. Though I haven&#8217;t seen the actual application, it would be unlikely that it gets granted.</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-24028</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:58:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>7 basic plots huh? Well that explains hollywood. Doesn&#039;t seem like they&#039;re using all of them tho.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>7 basic plots huh? Well that explains hollywood. Doesn&#8217;t seem like they&#8217;re using all of them tho.</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-24024</link>
		<dc:creator>Reader's Write</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2005 07:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have filed for a patent, ten minutes ago, for the use of ellipses ( … ), exclamation marks (!), question marks (?), their obverse components (¡) and (¿) and my all time favorite, the umlaut (Ö, Ë, Ä, etc.) In addition to those marks, my patent-pending includes all punctuation marks, the Roman alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet. I’m not touching those oriental pictographs with a ten foot pole. So break out those check books, kiddies, or beef up your PayPal accounts.

But I&#039;m not a greedy man -- go ahead and use the letters of the alphabet all you want. But watch out for those spelling and punctuation marks. I made more than fifty bucks on the above posts alone! And I&#039;m working with my Legislative delegation in Congress to provide penalties for those who attempt to circumvent my patent by simply not using punctuation marks, etc. Anyone who leaves the accent off of José (San Jose, CA, for example) will be subject to double penalties in construction zones. 

Someone stop the world and let me off. Greed and venality have reached leviathan proportions. In a nation of 300 million people, where the largest majority profess to be Christians, I don&#039;t know one person who would honestly give the shirt off his back to someone who might have a greater need for it. Nor have I encountered anyone who would turn his other cheek to his enemy. Especially, I never see anyone forgiving a sinner. Crime victims or their families are never content unless the perpetrator is sentenced to the absolute maximum penalty allowed by law (and they usually cry out for twice that penality!) And who can show me a creditor that has forgiven his debtors.

But don&#039;t misunderstand me. I love my country. It&#039;s comforting to know that a person can still depend on getting as much justice as he can afford and that anyone, no matter what nature of mental illness or deficiency he might suffer from, can still grow up to be president!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have filed for a patent, ten minutes ago, for the use of ellipses ( … ), exclamation marks (!), question marks (?), their obverse components (¡) and (¿) and my all time favorite, the umlaut (Ö, Ë, Ä, etc.) In addition to those marks, my patent-pending includes all punctuation marks, the Roman alphabet, the Greek alphabet, and the Cyrillic alphabet. I’m not touching those oriental pictographs with a ten foot pole. So break out those check books, kiddies, or beef up your PayPal accounts.</p>
<p>But I&#8217;m not a greedy man &#8212; go ahead and use the letters of the alphabet all you want. But watch out for those spelling and punctuation marks. I made more than fifty bucks on the above posts alone! And I&#8217;m working with my Legislative delegation in Congress to provide penalties for those who attempt to circumvent my patent by simply not using punctuation marks, etc. Anyone who leaves the accent off of José (San Jose, CA, for example) will be subject to double penalties in construction zones. </p>
<p>Someone stop the world and let me off. Greed and venality have reached leviathan proportions. In a nation of 300 million people, where the largest majority profess to be Christians, I don&#8217;t know one person who would honestly give the shirt off his back to someone who might have a greater need for it. Nor have I encountered anyone who would turn his other cheek to his enemy. Especially, I never see anyone forgiving a sinner. Crime victims or their families are never content unless the perpetrator is sentenced to the absolute maximum penalty allowed by law (and they usually cry out for twice that penality!) And who can show me a creditor that has forgiven his debtors.</p>
<p>But don&#8217;t misunderstand me. I love my country. It&#8217;s comforting to know that a person can still depend on getting as much justice as he can afford and that anyone, no matter what nature of mental illness or deficiency he might suffer from, can still grow up to be president!</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-23982</link>
		<dc:creator>Reader's Write</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:54:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Patenting genomes is already big business. Big biz already effectively OWNS electricity and water (at least the water that is piped into your residence). They have not figured out air and sunshine yet. Give them time...

As to patenting storylines?
Asinine. </description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Patenting genomes is already big business. Big biz already effectively OWNS electricity and water (at least the water that is piped into your residence). They have not figured out air and sunshine yet. Give them time&#8230;</p>
<p>As to patenting storylines?<br />
Asinine.</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-23972</link>
		<dc:creator>Reader's Write</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:09:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i want to patent every storyline from every disney film. how do i do that?

someone should find an old, rarely used law that will allow someone to patent everything written by shakespeare.

then hollywood would be forced to think of absolutely new ideas and not steal from the masters (although it&#039;s still debated whether or not the bard actually wrote anything, that&#039;s not the point. get hollywood and writers thinking on their own).</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i want to patent every storyline from every disney film. how do i do that?</p>
<p>someone should find an old, rarely used law that will allow someone to patent everything written by shakespeare.</p>
<p>then hollywood would be forced to think of absolutely new ideas and not steal from the masters (although it&#8217;s still debated whether or not the bard actually wrote anything, that&#8217;s not the point. get hollywood and writers thinking on their own).</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-23967</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:11:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m putting a patent for questions and you have just violated it!!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m putting a patent for questions and you have just violated it!!</p>
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		<title>By: Reader's Write</title>
		<link>http://www.p2pnet.net/story/6886/comment-page-1#comment-23947</link>
		<dc:creator>Reader's Write</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2005 18:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What&#039;s next? Patenting the human DNA? Patenting air? Water? Electricity?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What&#8217;s next? Patenting the human DNA? Patenting air? Water? Electricity?</p>
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