Twenty six letters, sure. But twenty six glyphs? Far from it. Along with all of the punctuation (the obvious addition) there are ligatures, italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc. Authors use all of these tools to express complex ideas clearly when twenty six letters isn't enough.
I have 9 patents issued and a handful more pending. As other posters have said, it's just part of some of our jobs. They have varied wildly in pendancy time. The fastest was 18 months, with no office actions (shocked the heck out of myself and the other inventor). The slowest (so far) was over 6 years. However, since Obama took office, I have had several that were mired in "docketed for examination" limbo suddenly get a flurry of activity and issue (three patents filed years apart issued within 50,000 of each other). Many of my colleagues are having the same experience. So I do suspect that things are changing at the USPTO. The dashboard and article seem to bear that out, at least in effort.
A thought experiment can highlight the problems with the OECD's
approach. In Table 2, we use OECD data (and some other sources) to show what
the OECD broadband rankings would look like in a "Broadband Nirvana"--a
situation in which every household and business establishment across the OECD
has a broadband connection. One would initially think that in a Broadband
Nirvana, every OECD country would be tied for first place, but the per capita
method of ranking that the OECD utilizes does not show that result. In fact, in
the scenario in which every home in business in the United States and every
other OECD country had a broadband connection, the OECD would rank the
United States 20th --five spots lower than the United States ranked in December
2006. Moreover, the United States would be further from the top position than it
is today (16 percentage points back rather than 11 points back in 2006).
Patents are selectably enforceable. I can choose to never sue you for infringing. What laches is supposed to prevent is me waiting until you are very profitable before suing you. However, even if I choose to never sue you, I can still sue Joe once I find out he is infringing.
But therein lies the key. You have to say how you are going to do this with enough specificity that one of ordinary skill in the art could accomplish the same without undo experimentation. That is, you have to say how you plan to approximate pi (thus specifying the algorithm). Then the question becomes is your method of approximating pi unique and non-obvious? I think the problem is that the USPTO has gotten quite slack on non-obvious. It seems that the standard practice is just to wear them down. Get your rejection/final-rejection/appeal/final-rejection/appeal/oh-whatever-have-the-damn-patent-already-and-go-away rulings.
If the machine was tampered with, then you disregard the electronic count from that machine and do a hand count of the voter-verified paper ballots. You did print a voter verified paper ballot right?
It seems that several here are making the argument that because you only "use" the technology, its not infringement. From the U.S. Code.
Except as otherwise provided in this title, whoever without authority makes, uses, offers to sell, or sells any patented invention, within the United States or imports into the United States any patented invention during the term of the patent therefor, infringes the patent. [emphasis mine]
So yeah, use is infringement, and you need a license. I agree that the expectation is that the manufacturer has provided you with this license, but it seems in this case the manufacturers have cheaped out and only pony up for a non-commercial license, expecting the user to purchase a commercial license if one is needed.
AT&T Universal Card. Citi owns it now, so I don't know if there are other equivalent Citi cards. I've had it for years now and the only thing I can't speak to on your list is the paying with electronic transfers. My wife pays the bill, but she is massive into online banking so I would suspect that you can.
The number of decibels reaching the ear depends on a number of factors. The RMS voltage of the signal, the efficiency of the drivers, the style of the headphones, etc. Is the EU planning to limit the amplifier to a particular gain? If so, will my pre-loudness war recordings suffer as I won't be able to apply enough gain to get them up to even 70 dB? Won't this incentivise the recording studios to make the loudness war even worse (it sounds "good" at maximum gain!) Or will they monitor the RMS voltage after the amplifier, and limit it to some value? In that case, consumers will likely choose low impedance, high sensitivity headphones to get higher volumes.
My point is that simply legislating MP3 players to produce no more than 85 dB is a rather odd request, as the MP3 player can't know what dB it's producing. I see what they are trying to accomplish, but I think it is futile and will probably result in worse players. I guess as long as they restrict it to the headphone amp and leave the line-out alone, one can always build/buy their own amplifier.
Oh, and I love the analogy of 120 dB = jet taking off. From how far away? I'm constantly within ear shot of jets taking off, and I would put it at 60 dB. Of course, that is probably on the order of 1 mile away. I would guess if you were standing on the runway directly below the jet as it was taking off it could even exceed 120 dB.
-Why is it so difficult to find good cheese in America? I'd pay extra for that.
It's not. Good cheese is rather easy to find (I lived in the UK for a year, and I travel to Europe about twice or thrice annually these days. I do know of what you speak). You will pay a premium for it. Try a local wine shop, or an upscale supermarket in your area. The better supermarket down the road has loads of craft cheeses that are fantastic, from Feta to English Cheddar, yummy Stilton, etc.
Like this course ? I saw a brief (1h) Google video of a talk that the professor gave. Didn't I come across that link from the Slashdot front page? Anyway, yeah, I'd take that course. Even if it just intellectual curiosity.
But fatty acid extracts are chemical compounds. And lets be clear, if they figure this out to the point that it works reliably, the next step is bring in the chemists and chemical engineers to figure out how to scale this up to industrial proportions. That will mean building the compounds in bulk, not extracting them from cockroaches. Which to be fair, is better for the roaches.
What about music videos? Wouldn't the record labels hold the copyright on those? Maybe their intent was to find music videos for which they hold the copyright. Though I suppose they should have clarified themselves if that was the intent.
In the US, if you are the inventor you get 1 year from public disclosure. From
USPTO
If the invention has been described in a printed publication anywhere in the world, or if it was known or used by others in this country before the date that the applicant made his/her invention, a patent cannot be obtained. If the invention has been described in a printed publication anywhere, or has been in public use or on sale in this country more than one year before the date on which an application for patent is filed in this country, a patent cannot be obtained. In this connection it is immaterial when the invention was made, or whether the printed publication or public use was by the inventor himself/herself or by someone else. If the inventor describes the invention in a printed publication or uses the invention publicly, or places it on sale, he/she must apply for a patent before one year has gone by, otherwise any right to a patent will be lost. The inventor must file on the date of public use or disclosure, however, in order to preserve patent rights in many foreign countries.
Slashdot Mirror
Twenty six letters, sure. But twenty six glyphs? Far from it. Along with all of the punctuation (the obvious addition) there are ligatures, italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc. Authors use all of these tools to express complex ideas clearly when twenty six letters isn't enough.
I have 9 patents issued and a handful more pending. As other posters have said, it's just part of some of our jobs. They have varied wildly in pendancy time. The fastest was 18 months, with no office actions (shocked the heck out of myself and the other inventor). The slowest (so far) was over 6 years. However, since Obama took office, I have had several that were mired in "docketed for examination" limbo suddenly get a flurry of activity and issue (three patents filed years apart issued within 50,000 of each other). Many of my colleagues are having the same experience. So I do suspect that things are changing at the USPTO. The dashboard and article seem to bear that out, at least in effort.
I doubt the Supreme Court will even take this one up. This one is now settled.
A thought experiment can highlight the problems with the OECD's approach. In Table 2, we use OECD data (and some other sources) to show what the OECD broadband rankings would look like in a "Broadband Nirvana"--a situation in which every household and business establishment across the OECD has a broadband connection. One would initially think that in a Broadband Nirvana, every OECD country would be tied for first place, but the per capita method of ranking that the OECD utilizes does not show that result. In fact, in the scenario in which every home in business in the United States and every other OECD country had a broadband connection, the OECD would rank the United States 20th --five spots lower than the United States ranked in December 2006. Moreover, the United States would be further from the top position than it is today (16 percentage points back rather than 11 points back in 2006).
Patents are selectably enforceable. I can choose to never sue you for infringing. What laches is supposed to prevent is me waiting until you are very profitable before suing you. However, even if I choose to never sue you, I can still sue Joe once I find out he is infringing.
But therein lies the key. You have to say how you are going to do this with enough specificity that one of ordinary skill in the art could accomplish the same without undo experimentation. That is, you have to say how you plan to approximate pi (thus specifying the algorithm). Then the question becomes is your method of approximating pi unique and non-obvious? I think the problem is that the USPTO has gotten quite slack on non-obvious. It seems that the standard practice is just to wear them down. Get your rejection/final-rejection/appeal/final-rejection/appeal/oh-whatever-have-the-damn-patent-already-and-go-away rulings.
If the machine was tampered with, then you disregard the electronic count from that machine and do a hand count of the voter-verified paper ballots. You did print a voter verified paper ballot right?
Ntalk had this before we even knew to call it IM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_%28software%29).
You can compare it to say, childbirth in the US, which has a Maternal Death rate of 11 per 100,000 births. It's a safe museum.
So yeah, use is infringement, and you need a license. I agree that the expectation is that the manufacturer has provided you with this license, but it seems in this case the manufacturers have cheaped out and only pony up for a non-commercial license, expecting the user to purchase a commercial license if one is needed.
They claimed copyright, and that reverse engineering the codes was a violation of the DMCA. They lost.
Good chance its the flyback transformer. In which case (if NTSC) it is 15,735 Hz.
A pogo-stick is effectively a balanced 1-leg system. Marginally stable, but doable.
AT&T Universal Card. Citi owns it now, so I don't know if there are other equivalent Citi cards. I've had it for years now and the only thing I can't speak to on your list is the paying with electronic transfers. My wife pays the bill, but she is massive into online banking so I would suspect that you can.
My point is that simply legislating MP3 players to produce no more than 85 dB is a rather odd request, as the MP3 player can't know what dB it's producing. I see what they are trying to accomplish, but I think it is futile and will probably result in worse players. I guess as long as they restrict it to the headphone amp and leave the line-out alone, one can always build/buy their own amplifier.
Oh, and I love the analogy of 120 dB = jet taking off. From how far away? I'm constantly within ear shot of jets taking off, and I would put it at 60 dB. Of course, that is probably on the order of 1 mile away. I would guess if you were standing on the runway directly below the jet as it was taking off it could even exceed 120 dB.
No, its an SNL skit. I was Shatner. http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/86hgetalife.phtml
It's not. Good cheese is rather easy to find (I lived in the UK for a year, and I travel to Europe about twice or thrice annually these days. I do know of what you speak). You will pay a premium for it. Try a local wine shop, or an upscale supermarket in your area. The better supermarket down the road has loads of craft cheeses that are fantastic, from Feta to English Cheddar, yummy Stilton, etc.
Like this course ? I saw a brief (1h) Google video of a talk that the professor gave. Didn't I come across that link from the Slashdot front page? Anyway, yeah, I'd take that course. Even if it just intellectual curiosity.
I checked the patent in your link. It was re-examined in 2003, and all claims canceled. Whew, my kids are safe.
Are you sure ?
But fatty acid extracts are chemical compounds. And lets be clear, if they figure this out to the point that it works reliably, the next step is bring in the chemists and chemical engineers to figure out how to scale this up to industrial proportions. That will mean building the compounds in bulk, not extracting them from cockroaches. Which to be fair, is better for the roaches.
What about music videos? Wouldn't the record labels hold the copyright on those? Maybe their intent was to find music videos for which they hold the copyright. Though I suppose they should have clarified themselves if that was the intent.
Wouldn't a better /. story be about the Sci-Tech awards?
My neighborhood, built about 10 years ago, has a community pool that our HOA fees go to. We like it.
If the invention has been described in a printed publication anywhere in the world, or if it was known or used by others in this country before the date that the applicant made his/her invention, a patent cannot be obtained. If the invention has been described in a printed publication anywhere, or has been in public use or on sale in this country more than one year before the date on which an application for patent is filed in this country, a patent cannot be obtained. In this connection it is immaterial when the invention was made, or whether the printed publication or public use was by the inventor himself/herself or by someone else. If the inventor describes the invention in a printed publication or uses the invention publicly, or places it on sale, he/she must apply for a patent before one year has gone by, otherwise any right to a patent will be lost. The inventor must file on the date of public use or disclosure, however, in order to preserve patent rights in many foreign countries.