pardon me sir, let me rephrase. what i'm attempting to patent is the concept by which this system that i designed works. my proof of concept was achieved via a bit of programming. that being said, my full disclosure was based around the implementation via the software i'd written. i'm not patenting the program itself, i'm patenting the means by which it functions (which doesn't have to be in the software domain, that was just easiest way to demonstrate its theory).
as for my being not being pitied, again, i think you misunderstand me. the prior art to which my patent is being compared, is for a very simple thing. but, since it was artfully worded, it encompasses far more than it's functional scope. it doesn't just impinge on my work, but on lots of other patents that have had to be reworked in order to fit within it's bounds.
i've not asked for pity, i've just stated a similarly frustrating patent issue in a similar vein to the posted story.
to be fair, it is in no way the lawyers fault. during their research, they turned up these broad patents, and in an effort to have me not waste tons of money on their services (an oddly unlawyer-like move) they suggested some ways to (potentially) rework what i had, so that it could fit within the bounds of the prior patents...
of course, after reading this, i'm starting to bet that i would be fine... it's just such an expensive process -- for an average guy like me -- and it takes so much time... i'm still a bit wary to risk it...
i've been going through the motions of getting some software patented (using a specialist law firm in chicago) and mid-way through the process, i stopped proceedings to entirely rework / rethink the project, because some troll like this had written a patent for something disturbingly simple, and worded it such that it expanded miles beyond it's scope... to a point that it encroached on... well... everything...
every time i see cases like this, i have to wonder... do i just need shadier patent lawyers? or should i just rely on the people who review these things to be completely blind to all prior art?
my local comcast office is hidden behind a giant strip mall... and surrounded by a barbed wire fence... seems pretty ridiculous for a company with 25 million satisfied customers...
i guess it was safe to assume that the wi-fi system wouldn't work... mainly because they had been putting up signs saying it was coming for the last year...
in a similar vein, i believe they've been putting up signs for the last 2 years proclaiming that we have, in fact, won the 2016 olympics... which clearly isn't going to happen either...
i guess the moral is, don't trust signs in chicago... i mean everyone has already learned to ignore the traffic ones... how hard could it be?
when i was actually pro-riaa... this was mainly due to a family friend who is a songwriter, that had written a giant hit in the 70's and was pretty much living on the $300,000+ royalties he received from this song. over a stretch of about 5 years, when the whole piracy thing took off, that number dropped from $300,000 to about 8,000... not a minor thing. but i've never seen a company go about something in such a wrong way that the public cries foul, and then fixes it by just getting progressively more ludicrous... at this point it feels like the music industry is actively trying to find those who are the farthest removed from "the problem," because they won't know how to defend themselves against waves of unwarranted attacks.
oh yeah, and the other day i was in macy's, and i performed (sang along with the store radio) a john mayer tune for 10 - 15 people. so i too am at fault. but i've since written john mayer a formal apology and pleaded with him not to press charges.
no, but i'm sure there are people out there who would (god forbid) and i'm sure they wouldn't mind waiting the extra minute and a half while a protools engineer breaks the whole concet into tracks... other than that, i have no idea what you're talking about...
why does anyone need extra software to break things into individual tracks? these concerts are almost certainly being recorded into protools... and it's about a 1 minute process to zip through the total recording and and just seperate the songs into different regions... and then burn away... you'll get seperate tracks, and you won't have to deal with patent issues over something this insane...
this happened to me a while back... i saw a good price online, but when i went to the store it was considerably higher, and when they checked on the store computers, it showed the higher price. when i asked the sales person if i could get the price i saw on the internet, they said that wasn't possible...
so, long story short, i took my laptop to the starbucks nextdoor and ordered the item from the website (for the lower price) and just selected the in-store pick up option... then i walked back in, and got it for the lower price... what a stupid system.
why does it seem like every week the riaa has some new, bizarre claim about the cost of music, or some completely inane justification for them to charge us all more money for our cds?
i spend a good portion of my life in studios, and while it does cost quite a lot of money to record / produce / master a big commercial release, there's no way that a cd would ever cost $33... but then again, i don't work for the riaa, so i probably don't know the 'real' truth...
Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III, MegaMan X, Super Mario World. Growing up with these games has made them the most comforting i've ever found. just the music from final fantasy iii cheers me up if i'm feeling down.
they should have just logged the drive.
and by logged, i mean smashed with a large log. it's fun, and you won't have to worry about somebody recovering anything from it...
it amazes me that even though their last two 'revolutionary' formats failed spectacularly (betamax and minidisc) sony is still fighting for blue-ray... at this point, hd-dvd is already hitting the market, and sony is faking blue-ray DEMOS... they'd probably make more money if they ditched blue-ray and started producing hd-dvd players / recorders... but i guess, from their standpoint, that would be losing...
while i do think that loads of power, like the ps3 / 360, is awesome... the main reason i'm so anxious for the revolution is to play the old games... so i, for one, don't need mountains of horsepower... i'm just looking to get games like chrono trigger and secret of mana (hopefully square will be good about the licensing) so i can leave my carts on the shelf... because i don't want to think about replacing them (as a sealed chrono trigger recently sold on ebay for $550...)
visual basic is almost too simple for beginners... i mean, all you really need to know is: vb.writeprogram = true, and it'll do all the hard stuff for you...
how long will it be until the RIAA has plain-clothes agents wandering the streets of major cities, harassing everyone they see, with those too-familiar white earbuds, about how they acquired their music, and can they produce doccumented proof on the spot...
Chrono Trigger! (SNES) i've probably played through this game over 100 times... and yet, for some reason i always find myself going back to it... no other game, for any system, has been as addicting (at least for me!)
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pardon me sir, let me rephrase. what i'm attempting to patent is the concept by which this system that i designed works. my proof of concept was achieved via a bit of programming. that being said, my full disclosure was based around the implementation via the software i'd written. i'm not patenting the program itself, i'm patenting the means by which it functions (which doesn't have to be in the software domain, that was just easiest way to demonstrate its theory).
as for my being not being pitied, again, i think you misunderstand me. the prior art to which my patent is being compared, is for a very simple thing. but, since it was artfully worded, it encompasses far more than it's functional scope. it doesn't just impinge on my work, but on lots of other patents that have had to be reworked in order to fit within it's bounds.
i've not asked for pity, i've just stated a similarly frustrating patent issue in a similar vein to the posted story.
to be fair, it is in no way the lawyers fault. during their research, they turned up these broad patents, and in an effort to have me not waste tons of money on their services (an oddly unlawyer-like move) they suggested some ways to (potentially) rework what i had, so that it could fit within the bounds of the prior patents...
of course, after reading this, i'm starting to bet that i would be fine... it's just such an expensive process -- for an average guy like me -- and it takes so much time... i'm still a bit wary to risk it...
i've been going through the motions of getting some software patented (using a specialist law firm in chicago) and mid-way through the process, i stopped proceedings to entirely rework / rethink the project, because some troll like this had written a patent for something disturbingly simple, and worded it such that it expanded miles beyond it's scope... to a point that it encroached on... well... everything...
every time i see cases like this, i have to wonder... do i just need shadier patent lawyers? or should i just rely on the people who review these things to be completely blind to all prior art?
my buddy and i knew the answers to all of the questions when we were 8... and does anyone remember the prophetic
O.J. Simpson is:
a. no one to mess with
b. something
c. something about juice
d. under indictment
so depending on when you played the game, there were two answers to that one...
my local comcast office is hidden behind a giant strip mall... and surrounded by a barbed wire fence... seems pretty ridiculous for a company with 25 million satisfied customers...
i guess it was safe to assume that the wi-fi system wouldn't work... mainly because they had been putting up signs saying it was coming for the last year...
in a similar vein, i believe they've been putting up signs for the last 2 years proclaiming that we have, in fact, won the 2016 olympics... which clearly isn't going to happen either...
i guess the moral is, don't trust signs in chicago... i mean everyone has already learned to ignore the traffic ones... how hard could it be?
oh yeah, and the other day i was in macy's, and i performed (sang along with the store radio) a john mayer tune for 10 - 15 people. so i too am at fault. but i've since written john mayer a formal apology and pleaded with him not to press charges.
no, but i'm sure there are people out there who would (god forbid) and i'm sure they wouldn't mind waiting the extra minute and a half while a protools engineer breaks the whole concet into tracks... other than that, i have no idea what you're talking about...
why does anyone need extra software to break things into individual tracks? these concerts are almost certainly being recorded into protools... and it's about a 1 minute process to zip through the total recording and and just seperate the songs into different regions... and then burn away... you'll get seperate tracks, and you won't have to deal with patent issues over something this insane...
this happened to me a while back... i saw a good price online, but when i went to the store it was considerably higher, and when they checked on the store computers, it showed the higher price. when i asked the sales person if i could get the price i saw on the internet, they said that wasn't possible...
so, long story short, i took my laptop to the starbucks nextdoor and ordered the item from the website (for the lower price) and just selected the in-store pick up option... then i walked back in, and got it for the lower price... what a stupid system.
that's great, but will it run linux?
why does it seem like every week the riaa has some new, bizarre claim about the cost of music, or some completely inane justification for them to charge us all more money for our cds? i spend a good portion of my life in studios, and while it does cost quite a lot of money to record / produce / master a big commercial release, there's no way that a cd would ever cost $33... but then again, i don't work for the riaa, so i probably don't know the 'real' truth...
Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Final Fantasy III, MegaMan X, Super Mario World. Growing up with these games has made them the most comforting i've ever found. just the music from final fantasy iii cheers me up if i'm feeling down.
they should have just logged the drive. and by logged, i mean smashed with a large log. it's fun, and you won't have to worry about somebody recovering anything from it...
it amazes me that even though their last two 'revolutionary' formats failed spectacularly (betamax and minidisc) sony is still fighting for blue-ray... at this point, hd-dvd is already hitting the market, and sony is faking blue-ray DEMOS... they'd probably make more money if they ditched blue-ray and started producing hd-dvd players / recorders... but i guess, from their standpoint, that would be losing...
he meant to say "government research developed the FreedomPod"
while i do think that loads of power, like the ps3 / 360, is awesome... the main reason i'm so anxious for the revolution is to play the old games... so i, for one, don't need mountains of horsepower... i'm just looking to get games like chrono trigger and secret of mana (hopefully square will be good about the licensing) so i can leave my carts on the shelf... because i don't want to think about replacing them (as a sealed chrono trigger recently sold on ebay for $550...)
visual basic is almost too simple for beginners... i mean, all you really need to know is: vb.writeprogram = true, and it'll do all the hard stuff for you...
how long will it be until the RIAA has plain-clothes agents wandering the streets of major cities, harassing everyone they see, with those too-familiar white earbuds, about how they acquired their music, and can they produce doccumented proof on the spot...
Chrono Trigger! (SNES) i've probably played through this game over 100 times... and yet, for some reason i always find myself going back to it... no other game, for any system, has been as addicting (at least for me!)