[LINK] U.S. Patent Office Publishes the First Patent Application to Claim a Fictional Storyline;

[Robert Hart]

Carl Makin wrote:

> http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/11/emw303435.htm
>
>
>  U.S. Patent Office Publishes the First Patent Application to Claim a
>  Fictional Storyline; Inventor Asserts Provisional Rights Against 
> Hollywood
>
> /The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will publish history’s first 
> “storyline patent” application today from an application filed in 
> November, 2003. Inventor Andrew Knight will assert publication-based 
> provisional patent rights against the entertainment industry./
>
> Falls Church, Virginia (PRWEB) November 3, 2005 -- Further to a policy 
> of publishing patent applications eighteen months after filing, the 
> U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is scheduled to publish history’s 
> first “storyline patent” application today. The publication will be 
> based on a utility patent application filed by Andrew Knight in 
> November, 2003, the first such application to claim a fictional 
> storyline. 

I cannot for the life of me see how a generic story line patent will 
stand in the face of millenia of prior art. If it is not a generic 
storyline (ie essentially a story), then why go for a patent when 
copyright provides significantly longer protection than patent?

What am I missing here?

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Robert Hart					hartr at interweft.com.au
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