[citation][nom]f-gomes[/nom]Don't get me wrong, dear Americans. I care for you, I really do, you live in a wonderful country, but your patent systems and corporate culture are retarded. How can you keep feeding this kind of crap?I remember when that McDonalds coffee spill hit the news, everybody I know was shocked to see how stupid american courts are. But the bar keeps beeing raised (or lowered, if you will) so much that that coffee spill case starts to look reasonable.[/citation]
The "coffee spill case" wasn't the worst...
In 2003, an idiot filed suit against McDonalds over his son's weight problems. The guy fed his son McDonald's food for breakfast and dinner 7 days a week and claimed McDonalds was solely at fault for his son's weight problem. It's been well documented for at least the last 30 years that McDonalds sells some of the most unhealthy fast food in existance, but the court's let this BS get to a judge who, surprisingly, dismissed the case....but the fact it wasn't thrown out before going to trial is stupid in itself (kinda like these concept patent suits)....