{"id":6403,"date":"2014-05-15T06:37:44","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6403"},"modified":"2014-05-15T06:37:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T11:37:58","slug":"amazon-awarded-the-worlds-stupidest-patent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=6403","title":{"rendered":"Amazon awarded the worlds stupidest patent."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They have patented the process of <a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/207512\/taking-a-photo-against-a-white-background-amazon-owns-the-patent-on-that\/\">taking a photograph against a white background<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.olegvolk.net\/\">Oleg Volk<\/a> better watch his back. <\/p>\n<p>Seriously, the patent business has gotten so damned stupid it&#8217;s not funny. One of my customers tried to patent one of my ideas! I put an end to THAT. My company technically owns my work, but I was damned if I was just going to let some idiot steal it. And now <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patent_troll\">patent trolls<\/a> are a thing. <\/p>\n<p>But seriously- white background patent? I have been doing that shit since the 70&#8217;s. You can buy the damned light tables anywhere- in fact if I had the room I would get one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adorama.com\/JTTL365TK.html?gclid=CPbe85Xrrb4CFXRo7Aod8i0AOg\">these<\/a> from Adorama and set it up here. Idiots. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They have patented the process of taking a photograph against a white background. Oleg Volk better watch his back. Seriously, the patent business has gotten so damned stupid it&#8217;s not funny. One of my customers tried to patent one of my ideas! I put an end to THAT. My company technically owns my work, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}