Microsoft has patented PgUp-PgDn
What will you call a situation, if you have the middle of the current page displayed on the screen, you press the PgDn key and the screen scrolls to the middle of the next page? Want to say this is a normal system operation? Microsoft believes otherwise. They call it the “Navigation of page content at page intervals,” and the other day the US Patent Office still issued (!) A patent for this “invention”. Here it is: official US patent number 7,415,666 .
Is it possible, according to the logic of Microsoft, that the PgDn key initially had to scroll through the content only to the end of the page, without going to the next? And only in Redmond did developers get to the brilliant idea to flip through exactly one page?
This patent application did not attract the particular attention of the public at all, because it was difficult to assume that the Patent Office would approve it. But it actually happened.
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In this regard, recent statements by Microsoft about improving the quality of patents are particularly cynical. What do they get there bonuses for the number of inventions?
via Techdirt
Is it possible, according to the logic of Microsoft, that the PgDn key initially had to scroll through the content only to the end of the page, without going to the next? And only in Redmond did developers get to the brilliant idea to flip through exactly one page?
This patent application did not attract the particular attention of the public at all, because it was difficult to assume that the Patent Office would approve it. But it actually happened.
')
In this regard, recent statements by Microsoft about improving the quality of patents are particularly cynical. What do they get there bonuses for the number of inventions?
via Techdirt
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/37754/
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