Not patenting a linked list, but an enhancement to it, as a reader suggests. Not that the idea is bad, but doesn't seem ingenious enough to be patentable. Node(

Not patenting a linked list, but an enhancement to it, as a reader suggests. Not that the idea is bad, but doesn't seem ingenious enough to be patentable. Node(Value, Node next, Node auxNext, ...) is just unnecessary complication of the simple concept of a linked list, and seems useful only for very specialized needs.