Start learning to read and understand patent claims and the differences in patent classes and subclasses. Hiring a lawyer to do it well will cost you more than you can afford AND you won't really know how thorough he was in his patent searching and analysis (or whether he just hired a portion of it out, which is common).
Searching & Reading is all free at www.uspto.gov
Various places & publications talk about hows and whys. The USPTO wording or language needs to be understood not unlike any jargon.
If existing patents "read" right on top of your idea "claims", then the chances of getting issuance are almost nill.
Even if you can patent it, there remains a question if you can actually get substantial income from it and that is the biz game.
If you mix work and personal data regardless of the machine, and some "disagreement" occurs, you can bet you will not have any right to refuse to supply any and all data from a mixed system.
If someone just decides to "get even" after you leave (particularly if you are now at a competitor or set up a business in the same field), they can say you left with proprietary company data and sue for its return.
You may think a Mac Book Pro is expensive, but you have never seen what an experienced law firm's retainer fee is until it hits with a thud.
"Chrome designed for Online OS to Challenge Apple" would be far more accurate.
Pure Net connection devices are already proliferating and with Apple set to enter the fray, it will get far more intense for the OS that delivers the best look, feel and ease of use. Maybe Google has a big edge over Microsoft, but NOT over Apple.
If Chrome can do it, great, more power to Google.
Apple has already shown in spades that it can create a superior online device OS that doesn't restrict the end users ability much (given the physical form factor of iPhone), and that consumers will buy it by the tens of millions each year. Apple already has the vertical integration from programming tools, OS, hardware design, chip design, manufacturing systems & consumer image to support a new form factor device, and there is no question they are ready to deliver a device with no OS creation at all.
Google seems to be setting itself up to compete with Apple not Microsoft.
If something is specific enough to warrant being potentially covered by a patent, then learn how to read and understand patents. A patent application for something that truly offers a customer value can and is sold all the time, if it seems likely to issue or certainly once it issues.
They are organized by Class and Subclass (like fasteners, etc) and are searchable through the www.uspto.gov.
Often that search will yield the example that someone has done "it", the idea before, but that doesn't mean you might not have a valid better, more efficient solution that could be patented.
Don't try to write patents yourself. That is like trying to go to court to defend against yourself in a criminal trial. The wording, strategy, alternatives, backups, procedures, significant positions, appeals, etc. are something you only learn over time.
Net result is that if there is MONEY to be made off your idea that is better than what is in the market, then investigate and find out if it can likely do what you think. Then get an application on file.
The researchers initially formed 'ultra-black' metals which would absorb almost all wavelengths of infra-red to ultraviolet light, and then tried radiating from such a surface. It is not a practical product in any way, yet, but this is what drives new uses and products.
My beef is when governments decide they know best how to get efficient and mandate "efficiency" or "compact flourescent bulbs".
Governments screw with the private sector incentive to do better in any way that is good and it often make a disincentive for some companies to try to produce a better product or more of it when "the government" has already mandated something else (or now decided to tax it even more).
Governments should not be telling people what cars or trucks' mileage should be, but make core decisions about directing necessary utilities and services on a long term sustainable basis rather than based on the next election cycle. Core issues on energy source, supply, transmission, grid reliability & recovery, and redundancy are simply not being done as far as I read about it.
Lost a couple employees to them. They became involved based on promises of becoming "Auditors", but when they couldn't pay for the lessons (training, etc), they were dumped faster than a hot pan handle.
Interesting thing is I later made the plastic parts for the e machine auditing. (2 plastic parts, 2 resistors, 2 connector pins and wires). Later ran into the molder who makes the training case for their dvds and printed materials. Once the box was filled with $20 worth of materials, the loser had to pay near $2000 for it as I recall (It has been 5 years or so).
It is so hokey it is hard to believe people fall for it.
With a "dumb" electorate, you get "leaders" who have little or no training in economics, business, international relations or governance.
Thus we get people who often have money or married it and smile enough in good looking cloths with cute one sentence sound bites to amuse people who get their news & "analysis" in one sentence sound bites and the electorate then ELECT those, hmm, 'political actors'.
We should not be surprised at the empty heads in WDC. Rather to be expected.
Get a good experienced attorney advisor to make sure that you take into account all the subtleties. You can't learn or appreciate them all from the outside and as young as you are.
Get a good financial advisor (who works on an hourly basis) and make sure he works with the attorney.
We see it all the time, where no one wants to delve into details & analyze something.
After all, that takes time & "I have to get my Latte @ Starbucks."
I am also struck by the lack of actual questioning of people "journalists" interview. It doesn't happen for the most part. It is mostly "star-struck fan time" when journalists interview the politicians and famous people.
Not surprisingly, the lead-acid battery makers have been using modern technologies including, nano-manufacturing to improve the lead-acid battery and those are much more efficient and easily reproccessible to above 99% as I recall reading.
Ultra-capacitor storage (eeStor is one) are likewise claiming they will compete with batteries and a recent announcement of using Carbon (yes that super-abundant and inexpensive organic material which can be reclaimed from combustion processes amongst many other things) nanofibers to yield impressive gains in ultra-capacitor storage density are being worked on diligently.
The world will have multiple energy storage systems and cost will likely determine who wins on this. I would not want to bet on lithium for the longer term.
What happens when you have a hypochondriac who decides, irrationally, to go "after" a doctor who's treatment he did not like, did not think worked or whatever?
If MS can't make, a dramatically better OS, the question ultimately becomes when to they get out of the OS business.
Is a proprietary OS going to be the revenue generator for the future? Maybe, maybe not.
It sure looks like the future is spelled "small", as in eeePC, netbook, tabook, smartphone, MacBook Air & Similar devices, where the smooth running total system is what users want, and they don't want to fiddle with or debug the OS. That drives the average user nuts. Dell is starting to sell Linux installed and many other companies are doing so.
I'll use whatever I have to use to get my work done (including OSX & XP Pro right now), but given a choice I want a minimum hassle machine. I don't know if Win7 is going to be it, but comments and experience tells me probably not.
With a troublesome Win7 (Sheepskin over Vista), is MS going to just push customers to other OSs?
Lithium batteries are basically NOT recyclable (ever notice that is not mentioned...at all.
Plus about 75% of the limited world supply of lithium carbonate to be processed for battery use is basically only in Columbia & Bolivia, which are not particularly capitalistic friendly at the moment.
Lithium Ion batteries are only an interim solution.
State, Local & Federal governments have been as irresponsible as the financial sector they set the rules for and then didn't oversee, probably because of donations and revolving door employment between government and the companies in that sector.
They have never admitted that taxes can be too large and stifle investment and productivity.
Reagan showed that it was possible to stimulate activity by lowering taxes, but now all we are hearing is raising taxes. Nowhere have I yet heard anything about reducing government spending programs.
The mega-push for Socialism has reached steam-roller stage.
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Start learning to read and understand patent claims and the differences in patent classes and subclasses. Hiring a lawyer to do it well will cost you more than you can afford AND you won't really know how thorough he was in his patent searching and analysis (or whether he just hired a portion of it out, which is common).
Searching & Reading is all free at www.uspto.gov
Various places & publications talk about hows and whys. The USPTO wording or language needs to be understood not unlike any jargon.
If existing patents "read" right on top of your idea "claims", then the chances of getting issuance are almost nill.
Even if you can patent it, there remains a question if you can actually get substantial income from it and that is the biz game.
If you mix work and personal data regardless of the machine, and some "disagreement" occurs, you can bet you will not have any right to refuse to supply any and all data from a mixed system. If someone just decides to "get even" after you leave (particularly if you are now at a competitor or set up a business in the same field), they can say you left with proprietary company data and sue for its return. You may think a Mac Book Pro is expensive, but you have never seen what an experienced law firm's retainer fee is until it hits with a thud.
"Chrome designed for Online OS to Challenge Apple" would be far more accurate.
Pure Net connection devices are already proliferating and with Apple set to enter the fray, it will get far more intense for the OS that delivers the best look, feel and ease of use. Maybe Google has a big edge over Microsoft, but NOT over Apple.
If Chrome can do it, great, more power to Google.
Apple has already shown in spades that it can create a superior online device OS that doesn't restrict the end users ability much (given the physical form factor of iPhone), and that consumers will buy it by the tens of millions each year. Apple already has the vertical integration from programming tools, OS, hardware design, chip design, manufacturing systems & consumer image to support a new form factor device, and there is no question they are ready to deliver a device with no OS creation at all.
Google seems to be setting itself up to compete with Apple not Microsoft.
Ignored by the press and most younger users is the value of time.
When you are less than 35 or 40, it seems like you have time for everything and time forever. Not true.
Once you look at the time required to support an OS rather than get significant work done, your perspective changes.
If your work is only email & web work, fine, use the cheapest laptop that works.
If you use Creative Suite, 3D modeling in any manner of appls or intensive audio-video, forget "cheap" hardware, as it is NOT cheap in that mode.
Well over a dozen friends have switched to Macs in recent years & everyone has done it to limit lost time.
If something is specific enough to warrant being potentially covered by a patent, then learn how to read and understand patents. A patent application for something that truly offers a customer value can and is sold all the time, if it seems likely to issue or certainly once it issues.
They are organized by Class and Subclass (like fasteners, etc) and are searchable through the www.uspto.gov.
Often that search will yield the example that someone has done "it", the idea before, but that doesn't mean you might not have a valid better, more efficient solution that could be patented.
Don't try to write patents yourself. That is like trying to go to court to defend against yourself in a criminal trial. The wording, strategy, alternatives, backups, procedures, significant positions, appeals, etc. are something you only learn over time.
Net result is that if there is MONEY to be made off your idea that is better than what is in the market, then investigate and find out if it can likely do what you think. Then get an application on file.
The researchers initially formed 'ultra-black' metals which would absorb almost all wavelengths of infra-red to ultraviolet light, and then tried radiating from such a surface. It is not a practical product in any way, yet, but this is what drives new uses and products.
My beef is when governments decide they know best how to get efficient and mandate "efficiency" or "compact flourescent bulbs".
Governments screw with the private sector incentive to do better in any way that is good and it often make a disincentive for some companies to try to produce a better product or more of it when "the government" has already mandated something else (or now decided to tax it even more).
Governments should not be telling people what cars or trucks' mileage should be, but make core decisions about directing necessary utilities and services on a long term sustainable basis rather than based on the next election cycle. Core issues on energy source, supply, transmission, grid reliability & recovery, and redundancy are simply not being done as far as I read about it.
Job came in from a seemingly legit company, without knowing what the product did. Simple, easy job.
After the first couple orders issues arose & the job went to some other shop.
Lost a couple employees to them. They became involved based on promises of becoming "Auditors", but when they couldn't pay for the lessons (training, etc), they were dumped faster than a hot pan handle.
Interesting thing is I later made the plastic parts for the e machine auditing. (2 plastic parts, 2 resistors, 2 connector pins and wires). Later ran into the molder who makes the training case for their dvds and printed materials. Once the box was filled with $20 worth of materials, the loser had to pay near $2000 for it as I recall (It has been 5 years or so).
It is so hokey it is hard to believe people fall for it.
With a "dumb" electorate, you get "leaders" who have little or no training in economics, business, international relations or governance. Thus we get people who often have money or married it and smile enough in good looking cloths with cute one sentence sound bites to amuse people who get their news & "analysis" in one sentence sound bites and the electorate then ELECT those, hmm, 'political actors'. We should not be surprised at the empty heads in WDC. Rather to be expected.
Get a good experienced attorney advisor to make sure that you take into account all the subtleties. You can't learn or appreciate them all from the outside and as young as you are.
Get a good financial advisor (who works on an hourly basis) and make sure he works with the attorney.
As the author noted.
We see it all the time, where no one wants to delve into details & analyze something.
After all, that takes time & "I have to get my Latte @ Starbucks."
I am also struck by the lack of actual questioning of people "journalists" interview. It doesn't happen for the most part. It is mostly "star-struck fan time" when journalists interview the politicians and famous people.
Not surprisingly, the lead-acid battery makers have been using modern technologies including, nano-manufacturing to improve the lead-acid battery and those are much more efficient and easily reproccessible to above 99% as I recall reading.
Ultra-capacitor storage (eeStor is one) are likewise claiming they will compete with batteries and a recent announcement of using Carbon (yes that super-abundant and inexpensive organic material which can be reclaimed from combustion processes amongst many other things) nanofibers to yield impressive gains in ultra-capacitor storage density are being worked on diligently.
The world will have multiple energy storage systems and cost will likely determine who wins on this. I would not want to bet on lithium for the longer term.
Jeesh, Obama doesn't work here anymore, you know that was years ago.
What do you mean the entire northern European Continent's former residents now want reparations now that their countries are under an ice sheet?
After all it was just a little dust, not even what a volcano produces.
It must have been the fault of the relative lack of Solar sun spots.
Oh, what? 100 million people are now claiming they "own" the U.S.? Ice reparations?
You'll destroy us just like, well, the Treaty of Versailles did to Germany a century ago...
Free of nukes only works until some other 4 foot 9 dictator decides to raise his status the only way he can to impress the world.
What then? Does he become emporer of the world or just harasser of the world as Hannibal did to Rome?
It will be even worse when you can only take in one piece of toilet paper.
Hey, Apple is the only one who offers "high-priced" laptops.
What is going on here?
What is this guy smoking?
Yeah, I know, the same stuff that allows them to vote to spend more than they can possibly get in taxes, leaving CA in an endless HOLE financially.
Now, why did we vote these guys in?
More and more independent artists ARE setting up their own sites and own their own copyrights.
Way to go!
What happens when you have a hypochondriac who decides, irrationally, to go "after" a doctor who's treatment he did not like, did not think worked or whatever?
It becomes a bitch to deal with.
If MS can't make, a dramatically better OS, the question ultimately becomes when to they get out of the OS business.
Is a proprietary OS going to be the revenue generator for the future? Maybe, maybe not.
It sure looks like the future is spelled "small", as in eeePC, netbook, tabook, smartphone, MacBook Air & Similar devices, where the smooth running total system is what users want, and they don't want to fiddle with or debug the OS. That drives the average user nuts. Dell is starting to sell Linux installed and many other companies are doing so.
I'll use whatever I have to use to get my work done (including OSX & XP Pro right now), but given a choice I want a minimum hassle machine. I don't know if Win7 is going to be it, but comments and experience tells me probably not.
With a troublesome Win7 (Sheepskin over Vista), is MS going to just push customers to other OSs?
License Apple's OSX and layoff 30,000 people and just color the startup screen Vista Blue with the appropriate logo.
Then Microsoft will have to get busy making actual applications that WORK, consistently, easily & productively, on the NIXs & OSX.
I am a dreamer.
Hmmm.
Thought I merely said Obama supported Open Source.
Must re-re-reread. Vote?
There is some humor and truth located in a corner somewhere.
Obama Gives a brand new understanding of what he means by supporting Open Source.
You thought it was software.
He was thinking of knowing everything anyone was & is doing on the net.
And you believed him.
Now what?
Lithium batteries are basically NOT recyclable (ever notice that is not mentioned...at all.
Plus about 75% of the limited world supply of lithium carbonate to be processed for battery use is basically only in Columbia & Bolivia, which are not particularly capitalistic friendly at the moment.
Lithium Ion batteries are only an interim solution.
State, Local & Federal governments have been as irresponsible as the financial sector they set the rules for and then didn't oversee, probably because of donations and revolving door employment between government and the companies in that sector.
They have never admitted that taxes can be too large and stifle investment and productivity.
Reagan showed that it was possible to stimulate activity by lowering taxes, but now all we are hearing is raising taxes. Nowhere have I yet heard anything about reducing government spending programs.
The mega-push for Socialism has reached steam-roller stage.