My two readers must have realised by now that I am a genius. The layout of this weblog is quite innovative – all pages have some static content (the menu bar on the left and the links on the right) and some dynamic content – the posts. Unfortunately someone has already patented this novel idea, as these guys found out:

Our website, www.museumtour.com has recently received an patent infringement notice from SBC Intellectual Property.
The letter suggests that any website which has static, linked information (top banners, menus, bottom banners) which are displayed while other sections of the page are displayed as non-static (the area where products appear on most websites) infringes upon the patents they hold.

What next? A patent on the novel idea of hyperlinking? That too has been tried.