(OT) Software Patents and computer based instruction

[Richmond]

On 06/05/2013 12:16 AM, J. Landman Gay wrote:
> On 6/4/13 1:40 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>> Timothy Bleiler wrote:
>>  > The patent process is clearly badly broken.
>>
>> Case in point:
>>
>> Method of swinging on a swing
>> <http://www.google.com/patents/US6368227>
>
> So when a kid does this without being aware of the patent, can the 
> parents be sued? Obviously the kid has DNA, but what if he doesn't 
> have a substrate?
>

Presumably if my kid falls off a swing and breaks her leg I can sue the 
patent holder for the medical bills + the trauma?