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USPTO Rules Fogent JPEG Patent Invalid
fistfullast33l writes "Groklaw has reported that the USPTO has ruled the broadest claims of the JPEG Patent held by Fogent to be invalid. PUBPAT, the organization that requested the review, released the news earlier today. According to PJ, the ruling will be hard to overturn as the 'submitters knew about the prior art but failed to tell the USPTO about it.'"
These days you could probably get a patent for a "process of expelling excess gas generated by metabolic processing of protein and accumulated in the large intestine and colon."
Yeah, it seems like they had a good picture of the situation.
Especially if you promote it as a new Energy Source.
Heck, you can probably get VC funding for it as well.
"It's the height of ridiculousness to say for those 9 lines you get hundreds of millions."
What they should have done is patent "Web 2.0"....
US Patent office makes competent ruling! News at 11!
I just burned all my JPEGs...
- Adam L. Beberg - The Cosm Project - http://www.mithral.com/
So, would you say this represents a lossy day for Fogent, since such a harsh judgment has now been rendered?
Thanks folks. I'm here all week. Try the veal.
Information wants to be anthropomorphized.
After we convert our cars to run on this new energy source will there be a public outcry each time the price of a slider goes up at whitecastle?
I really don't think I want to know how a handjob would be punishment.
Stands for Venture Capital or Venture Capitalists. Though similar in practice to the Southeast Asian guerillas of the same name, these are native mostly to California.
Having worked with a few, I can understand the confusion.
"Ladies and gentlemen, my killbot features Lotus Notes and a machine gun. It is the finest available."
Stands for Venture Capital or Venture Capitalists. Though similar in practice to the Southeast Asian guerillas of the same name, these are native mostly to California.
I think that's a completely inappropriate and insensitive comparison. One group acted in a completely vicious and amoral fashion: causing great suffering, imprisoning people for years, and acting with a callous disregard for human life. Whereas the other group was just a bunch of communists rebels.