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Original Post: A patent was just issued for the Linked List -- no kidding!
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If there was ever an example of what is wrong with software patents, this has got to be a classic:
http://www.google.com/patents?vid=USPAT7028023&id=Szh4AAAAEBAJ&dq=linked+list
If the patent office can issue a patent for something as ubiquitous as the linked list, and do it in 2006 (nearly 40 years after Knuth described it in his Art of Computer Programming series), then [...]
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