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Apple didn't invent a lot of things.

Umm, really? This is just the last 40 days or so... True, they didn't invent a lot of things, but they do invent A LOT of things. I double-dog dare you to search the USPTO site. They are crazy prolific at inventing things.

Well, if you are actually going to back those "prior art, obviousness or lack of originality" claims up (assuming they are anything more than just pissanting), you have your work cut out for you since they churning out more of them all the time.

I think this is a link to Masato Sagawa's magnet patent:

http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20110324ptan20110070118.php

The one liner /. summary is when you mix up and bake a magnet in a pan, it'll stick in the pan and warp unless you use a carbon based non-stick coating, you know, like "special" brownies.

Please no followups complaining that is a gross simplification; that is the whole point. Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp (well, cheaper magnets mean cheaper windmills means more windmills means less coal burned, or some extreme greenwashing like that)

They gave their last award to DMR who promptly died, I do hope Masato has better luck. Seriously, they both were/are good guys so best of luck dude.

If he had worked carbon nanotubes into the process it would have also received the Good Slashkeeping Seal of Approval

I think this is a link to Masato Sagawa's magnet patent:

http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20110324ptan20110070118.php

The one liner /. summary is when you mix up and bake a magnet in a pan, it'll stick in the pan and warp unless you use a carbon based non-stick coating, you know, like "special" brownies.

Please no followups complaining that is a gross simplification; that is the whole point. Its better than "contributes to energy conservation" which is pretty tenuous grasp (well, cheaper magnets mean cheaper windmills means more windmills means less coal burned, or some extreme greenwashing like that)

They gave their last award to DMR who promptly died, I do hope Masato has better luck. Seriously, they both were/are good guys so best of luck dude.

There's a reason this is appearing in a fourth rate journal. There are no control experiments. How do you know that soybeans or some other food substance won't do the same thing to rats. The rat intestinal system isn't exactly identical to humans'. For example, here's a rodenticide made exclusively from corn cellulose that's supposed to be non-toxic to humans: http://www.freshpatents.com/Rodenticide-dt20070816ptan20070190098.php

Apparently they modified this algorythm specifically for lower computational power. From the patent application:

http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20090611ptan20090147648.php

"Hence, an improved Maximum Likelihood Sequence Estimation, such as for an optical disc reader, would be advantageous and in particular a system allowing for increased flexibility, reduced complexity, reduced computational resource demand, increased applicability and/or improved performance would be advantageous."

Here, just wear these fresh contact lenses instead of those clunky glasses: http://www.freshpatents.com/-dt20090827ptan20090213459.php

Sure it can. And then someone can use techniques such as MFM, SPM or STM to recover the disk. And then there is this patent which notes that data is often partially written off the track, and thus can't be wiped.

I guess for most people's purposes something like DBAN will work well. But for the truly paranoid, you really need to read NIST's recommendation that you clear, purge and destroy. And by destroy, they mean that you use "Disintegration, Pulverization, Melting, and Incineration." At a "outsourced metal destruction or licensed incineration facility with the specific capabilities to perform these activities effectively, securely, and safely", no less.

"The New Yorker had an article [newyorker.com] about this six months ago", m000

Did the article also mention that Bill Gates of Microsoft also has a financial interest in Searete?

[0024] To prevent Sn whisker growth, one should remove at least one of the three following conditions of whisker growth: (1) Room temperature grain boundary diffusion of Sn in Sn, (2) Room temperature reaction between Sn and Cu to form Cu.sub.6Sn.sub.5, and (3) Formation of a stable and protective surface of Sn-oxide. If we remove any one or more of them, we should have in principle no whisker growth. In practice, substantially removing any one of them should lead to substantially hindered whisker growth. However, as we found from the synchrotron radiation study, it takes only a very small stress level to grow a Sn whisker. It is thus a difficult problem to prevent Sn whisker growth. The solution recommended by NEMI is to satisfy the condition (2) by preventing the Cu from reacting with Sn. To satisfy the condition (3) is unrealistic since one would have to have no oxide on the surface of the finish and to keep the device in ultra-high vacuum, or at least in an oxygen-free environment, to prevent oxidation. We disclose here to substantially satisfy the condition (1) by blocking the grain boundary diffusion of Sn. Also, we disclose that a combination of the two solutions together to satisfy both conditions (1) and (2) is even better. [0025] To prevent Sn whisker growth, one should uncouple stress generation and stress relaxation. One should remove both stress generation and stress relaxation. Stress generation can be removed by blocking the diffusion of Cu into Sn. The NEMI solution is to stop the diffusion of Cu into Sn by electroplating a layer of Ni between the Cu and Sn solder finish. The Ni serves as a diffusion barrier to prevent the diffusion of Cu into Sn. However, up to now, no solution to prevent stress relaxation has been available. In other words, there has been no teachings regarding preventing the creep process or the diffusion of Sn atoms to the whiskers. We thus disclose here to use another kind of diffusion barrier to stop the diffusion of Sn. Since we should block the diffusion of Sn atoms from substantially every grain of Sn in the finish, it is a non-trivial problem to solve.

English company? Some sort of English thing? Won't affect anyone anywhere else? Think again.

They hold a USA patent for this technology http://www.freshpatents.com/Targeted-advertising-system-and-method-dt20060921ptan20060212353.php?type=description

The patent is discussed in some depth www.politicalpenguin.org.uk/blog/p,295

This is a US patent and Phorm is registered in Delaware.

you can go to the link below to know a method to reduce antivirus false positive invention. http://www.freshpatents.com/System-and-method-for-reducing-antivirus-false-positives-dt20070802ptan20070180528.php

I remember that someone filed a patent of this idea already: http://www.freshpatents.com/Throttle-cable-disconnection-apparatus-and-method-dt20060427ptan20060086199.php And how much uproar it got from /. since it an cracker (doing evil) or a hacker (just to prove a point) can attempt to break into this system to disable your car in a dangerous location and the cracker will do evil to you or have the hacker show that it can be done. OnStar system is a great tool but I don't even mind that it can track my stolen car if it is stolen and all of these things that I like are passive devices but disabling the car is active and it is dangerous since, like all devices, can be misued.

The present invention provides a technique for preventing the unauthorized use of a computer application, operating system, or other program without causing the loss of any information or data.

When unauthorized use of the computer program is detected, any information and data is saved and the computer program and/or a portion of the computer system is disabled.

As patent law, legalese and such is not my area of expertise, I'm out on a limb here, but doesn't this sound like a patent for saving the state of an DRM-aware application before exiting if a DRM-breaking state occurs, thus making legal DRM-aware applications even more annoying to use?

...for this so-called so-called gaming card is readable here. I ain't buying it.

Fresh patents.com link

Not only that, Objectspark is one of the most expensive o/r mappers on the planet. It comes at a price of at least $20,000 (twenty thousand dollars) a pop.

Add to that that TopLink is at least 10 years old, we can safely say, Firestar is trying but is doing that in the wrong area: they should simply lower their prices and increase their value for money.

Their .NET product has failed, and I'm pretty sure their Java product isn't doing that well either, considering alternatives which cost at least a lot less.

FB, lead developer LLBLGen Pro

the past is cool, but it is just that. past. what i found most interesting in TFA was what Mr. Yeager is up these days. like his new patent for a P2P net called "Peerouette-Network" and what it will be capable of. have a read . http://www.freshpatents.com/Global-community-namin g-authority-dt20060112ptan20060010251.php

http://www.freshpatents.com/Cheese-and-methods-of- making-such-cheese-dt20051110ptan20050249854.php

PS - might be convinceable on this issue, but not impressed by some of the applications your firm is administering.

Your bald and unsupported statement is that a small player who has invented something will trip over other patents. (Note the "'ll" in your posting.)

I agree that this shouldn't have been universal (I'd say in my defence that it is a common rhetorical mode of English expression).

I doubt you can point to even two real-life examples of this happening.

A fair challenge, which I found much harder to answer than I had expected. Aside from the rather large and hairy case of the GSM licensing regime, Google didn't provide any quick answers. If I get a spare moment, I'll see if I can find some examples by more rigorous research.

PS - might be convinceable on this issue, but not impressed by some of the applications your firm is administering.