> But that company probably has lots of programmers working for them who 
> have likely already developed the core algorithm and software.  I don't 
> think they could file the patent unless they had some description of the 
> algorithm they were going to use.  Otherwise, like you say, it would be 
> like Logitech saying they were going to patent using a webcam to do face 
> recognition.

Believe what you want, but it seems to me that trying to patent portions of
60 year old barcode patents combined with your own nearly expired
optical mouse patent is just combining two old ideas and getting a new
patent.

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