Is there no limit to the U.S. patent office's cluelessness?
A company has patented the
Method for adding a user selectable function to a hyperlink.
In the patent application, you find gems like -
As of today, hyperlinks still only do one thing; if you click on them, they move you to a new location
Of course, this made news because, reportedly, as soon as they were granted the patent, they sued Google.
[Ref -
http://googlewatch.eweek.com/content/google_lawsuits/google_sued_for_hyperlink_patent_infringement.html]
