I see Amazon have fallen foul of trying to patent the obvious. I mentioned over a year ago that the word obvious was hampering eBay’s patent efforts and I stand by my claim that simple obviousness going to grow into a much bigger issue for the USPTO. News coverage c/o ./

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I was taking a look at lighthouse just now as a lightweight task tracker. Functional, attractive and tight email integration all looked good until I stumbled upon their spam problem. Gah, that almost put me off.

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