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YARP - Yet Another Ridiculous Patent.
As noted in Wired, Microsoft has been granted a patent on double clicking. Microsoft filed the patent in July 2002, but included content from an earlier filing in 1999, which was abandoned. The patent applies only to application buttons on a "limited resource computer device", which is not defined. It does not seem reasonable that this invention could possibly be unique, novel, and not obvious to experts in the same field, as required to be granted a patent, especially as late as 1999 or 2002. Certainly at first glance, this patent should not have been granted. Of course I am not a lawyer, though perhaps I should quickly become one.