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Who Says You Can't Patent Watching TV?

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from the apparently,-not-Microsoft dept

Wed, Jul 21st 2004 05:07pm -

theodp writes “EFF attorney Jason Schultz offers his take on Microsoft’s new patent for encouraging viewers to watch television programs.” Another day, another weird TV related patent from Microsoft. This one seems to focus on some sort of weird incentive program for getting people to watch more TV. Why is this patentable?


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