Usenet Newsgroups Re: we won't ever speak again From: alackrity@comcast.net (Ala) "you're a girly girly girly girl" <turkey@r.user> wrote in message news:3ptbq6.9ib.17.4@news.alt.net... I don't need you, and my next "mission" in life is to make you sorry you ever appeared to say that hurting me was okay. Because that is the scientific fact and you can't change it. Maybe she can invent something using those scientific facts Report: More Patents Granted in 2009 The number of utility patents granted by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office increased in 2009 after a two-year decline. The Intellectual Property Owners Association in its annual survey found that the PTO in calendar year 2009 issued 165,213 utility patents, up from 154,699 in 2008, a 4.4% jump. (Utility patents made up 94% of patent applications in 2009 - the balance are design, plant, and reissue patents). IBM Corp. received the most utility patents last year, with 4,887, followed by Samsung Electronics Co. (3,592); Microsoft Corp. (2,929); Canon K.K. (2,241) and Hitachi Ltd. (2,146). Subject  we won't ever speak again  Re: we won't ever speak again  Re: we won't ever speak again  Re: we won't ever speak again