Almost none of the examiners are attorneys. If they were, they'd go to a law firm and make almost triple what the'd make at the USPTO. law students, maybe, attorneys, no. And I bet your friend isn't an attorney, becuae he could walk in hte door at a law firm making $200+ a year with a Ph.D.
And you don't have to be an engineer, that's true. You have to have at least a 4 year degree in a hard science, such as biochem, bio, physics, or engineering. Or be able to pass the EIT test, or have 30 hours in certain hard science classes. Even Comp Sci is hard to get past the Commissioner. But most of the examiners are engies, because most patents are on engineering topics.
Then it seems like you submitted it in the wrong format. I'm assuming you submitted it online instead of on paper. The federal government's not the most flexible about things like formats, etc. You can get bounced when filing a patent for not having 1 inch margins on your drawings.
The nice thing about trademarks is that correcting something like that probably didn't cost you anything. With a patent, you'd have to pay a fee to amend or correct your drawing.
But generally, the big companies are so far ahead, research-wise, that they are able to get many more patents than the independent inventor. The big guys generally only want to cross license with other big companies.
Ford did get a patent on parts of the assemby line process. It expired decades ago. And manufacturers could ship goods produced on the assembly line process unless Ford got a patent on producing a particular good using the assembly line process.
Typical reactionary crap by someone who doesn't shit about the patent system.
Patent Examiners are engineers. Trademark examiners are attorneys.
And for a Software patent, you're looking at 2 1/2 years until they even start looking at your application. 3 months for a first OA is fantastic speed, even if it is for a trademark. The problem is that the PTO doesn't ahve the midset it should, where worthy inventors are assisted in getting a patent or trademark. Too often it's an adversarial process.
And if you have a problem with your logo, that's your fault. Hire a trademark attorney next time.
I have a 1800+ with 1 G of RAM and a 5800 video card, and it plays fine with most detail turned way down. The only problem is loading a map, it loads for about 30-45 seconds, then says "verifying client data" for 4-5 minutes. And it does that every time it loads a new map.
Fair use is not absolute. The Supreme COurt has said that you have to take enough of something for someone to be able to get the Joke when you're doing a parody. (2Live Crew case, Campbell v Orbison, when 2Live Crew parodied "Pretty Woman"). But there is also a balance between how "transformative" the new work is, how much was taken, whether it was for commercial purposes, etc.
As I pointed out to the Parent's reply, Distribution by itself is not bad. It's the COPYING, normally associated with publishing.
One example of fair use is teaching, like when your prof passes out a xeroxed article from the local paper. Quoting part of a book for a critical review is fair use as well, as is quoting for a research paper.
They can distribute it. That's what distributors do. So do libraries and used bookstores. I do it every Christmas, my in-laws are ravenous readers.
But no one can publish it without your ok, which I hope involves some filthy lucre.
I don't mean to take you to task for any imprecision in what you said, I was just making trying to make a point regarding the first sale doctrine. And I wanted to point out that distribution is different from publishing. Publishing involves copying or printing the book, which infringes on the copyright. Distribution is selling or giving away the book.
Ahh, you must be new to/. Annoying typos are just plain fun here. And wanking about typos is something people frequently do when they have nothing to back up their argument.
And I'll point out that I was/i> responding to his statement that "No one can distribute my book under "fair use" copyright law". The term distribute doesn't neccessarily mean printing the book and selling without ever paying royalties.
Libaries loan out books, that's distribution.
I can buy the book and give it away, that's distribution.
I can buy the book and resell it for any price I want, that's distribution, and if I do it on a regular basis, like for a business, that's commercial use. You can't seriously think that the Half-Price Books chain is distributing books on a massive scale. Are they publishing them? No. Distributing them? Yes.
In all of those cases, the author has already gotten his money, but he can't get two bites at the apple. Copyright simply allows people to make money off of their creative work, it doesn't prevent others from making money off it too.
As for fair use, it is not by definition non-infringing, it is simply a defense to infringment. You infringe, get busted for it, then claim fair use in court. If your fair use defense holds up, you're still infringing. Fair use just prevents the copyright holder from pursuing remedies such as damages or an injunction.
It's a good thing you're a professor of astronomy, and not copyright law.
No one can distribute my book under "fair use" copyright law, because it wouldn't be, and certainly commercial distribution is right out.
Just because you're book's still in print doesn't mean that there is no fair use of your book. In fact, the fair use doctrine is what allows people co minimally infringe on your copyright, while the work is still relevant. I can quote parts of your book, even if it is still in print, especially if the parts are relatively short, and I am doing it for teaching, critical or satire purposes.
But you are only partly correct when you state that no one can distribute your book under fair use. If you sell your book to me, and I in turn sell it to a recycled book store, that's legal (First sale doctrine and all, you already got your bucks). The recycled bookstore can resell it, and at a profit also.
Can I publish and sell your entire book myself? No. You need to be paid.
And creative commons doesn't change anything about copyright. It's a license, just like the GPL. you still own the copyright to your work, there are just conditions on people using it.
I will agree with your statement about attaching the Copyright notice. I think Dvorak probably heard something about taht in the 1970's. One way to get around copyright for certain works published before 1976 (IIRC) is to find a version published pre'76 without the copyright symbol. Doing so meant it was dedicated to the public. THe Berne convention forced the U.S. to move away from the annoying formalities.
But I agree with you that Dvorka has his head up his arse, He's a frequent understudy in the Billy Goats Gruff.
But the thing is, YOU ALREADY KNOW HE'S THE PRESIDENT. And if you're looking for his current address, it's 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washingto D.C.
In other news, George Bush' wife is named Laura
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I doesn't matter that the author was able to look her name in Google. He had to find out that she was a covert operative before he would know to look her up.
And for what it's worth, it would have been faster to look in "Who's Who in Washington". It list Joseph Wilson, and that he is married to Valerie Wilson. However, nothing this writer looked up told him that she was a covert operative.
THe information he found had nothing to do with her status at the CIA. He knew who someone was and looked up their name. I can see it now:
NEXT ON FOX: covert CIA operatives' cover busted by... COLLEGE FACEBOOKS. COULD IT HAPPEN TO YOU?
Amazon has had something similar for some time with their ratings stars. As you move your mouse across the row of stars, all the stars to the left light up until you click.
The Company I worked for did the middleware integration. We basically created the entire backend for Travelocity. Oddly enough, Galileo was one of the first GDSs to move to some form of XML messaging. When I first started wiorking at ??? in 2001, we were having to screen scrape the Windows travel agent terminals and translate everything. And this crap-ass system was written in VB 6.0.
Eventually we rewrote it in VB.Net, but that's not much better for high volume systems. (my team all used Delphi)
Even though we used.Net, we had 6-7 Compaq GS system, with the Alpha 64 bit processors for our backend database. Our 2 big ones were GS320s, with 32 Alphas each. We had to have the Compaq guys come in whenever there was a serious hardware issue, but they had 3 or 4 techs there within a couple of hours. (One weekend night, they were replacing a disc controller, and started the replacement at 12:30 at night. Something idn't take, and I didn't get out of there until 5:00a.m. Sunday morning.)
Needless to say, spending on the travel industry slowed significantly after 9/1, and so a lot of companies in the industry left off more expensive upgrades and development for several years. I imagine we'll be hearing about more significant moves in the next couple years as companies are forced upgrade or die.
You put in your serial # when you install, then when you run windows for the first time, it connects to a Microsoft server and sends you computer configuration to MS. MS saves the config, and tells your local copy of Windows to stop asking for registration. And every time you try to get a patch, WIndows phones home to see if you're stilll running that copy of windows on the same setup. If not, you have to call tech support.
I replaced my mobo, and later, when windows had to be reinstalled, I had to get a validation code from TS. I reinstalled again the next day, and didn't need it.
No, they pull a member of the audience up on stge and take a polaroid of him with the cast. You see the grail was under his seat the entire time. THe Show I went to, it was seat b101, down front.
Last year, CM's red team used Lidar, or laser radar. They flipped their Hummer the night before the race, crushing about $400K worth of Raytheon equipment, and it all had to be replaced in one night. Lidar lets you build a pretty good 3d image of the stuff in front of you. CHeck out computer vision on the internet, the simple stuff isn't too difficult to do. I believe one team last year kept having their vehicle mistake bushes for mountains though.
Congratulations, you invented the brushless dc motor, and you managesd to use 16 poles instead of the normal 3-7. Moving the electro magnet to the outside only means that the permanent magnets are in the rotor.
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How helpful will a voice over be when Linux doesn't install your soundcard drivers properly?
Almost none of the examiners are attorneys. If they were, they'd go to a law firm and make almost triple what the'd make at the USPTO. law students, maybe, attorneys, no. And I bet your friend isn't an attorney, becuae he could walk in hte door at a law firm making $200+ a year with a Ph.D.
And you don't have to be an engineer, that's true. You have to have at least a 4 year degree in a hard science, such as biochem, bio, physics, or engineering. Or be able to pass the EIT test, or have 30 hours in certain hard science classes. Even Comp Sci is hard to get past the Commissioner. But most of the examiners are engies, because most patents are on engineering topics.
Then it seems like you submitted it in the wrong format. I'm assuming you submitted it online instead of on paper. The federal government's not the most flexible about things like formats, etc. You can get bounced when filing a patent for not having 1 inch margins on your drawings.
The nice thing about trademarks is that correcting something like that probably didn't cost you anything. With a patent, you'd have to pay a fee to amend or correct your drawing.
too true.
But generally, the big companies are so far ahead, research-wise, that they are able to get many more patents than the independent inventor. The big guys generally only want to cross license with other big companies.
If you have prior art on someone else doing something similar, submit it.
Ford did get a patent on parts of the assemby line process. It expired decades ago. And manufacturers could ship goods produced on the assembly line process unless Ford got a patent on producing a particular good using the assembly line process.
Typical reactionary crap by someone who doesn't shit about the patent system.
Patent Examiners are engineers. Trademark examiners are attorneys.
And for a Software patent, you're looking at 2 1/2 years until they even start looking at your application. 3 months for a first OA is fantastic speed, even if it is for a trademark. The problem is that the PTO doesn't ahve the midset it should, where worthy inventors are assisted in getting a patent or trademark. Too often it's an adversarial process.
And if you have a problem with your logo, that's your fault. Hire a trademark attorney next time.
I have a 1800+ with 1 G of RAM and a 5800 video card, and it plays fine with most detail turned way down. The only problem is loading a map, it loads for about 30-45 seconds, then says "verifying client data" for 4-5 minutes. And it does that every time it loads a new map.
Fair use is not absolute. The Supreme COurt has said that you have to take enough of something for someone to be able to get the Joke when you're doing a parody. (2Live Crew case, Campbell v Orbison, when 2Live Crew parodied "Pretty Woman"). But there is also a balance between how "transformative" the new work is, how much was taken, whether it was for commercial purposes, etc.
As I pointed out to the Parent's reply, Distribution by itself is not bad. It's the COPYING, normally associated with publishing.
One example of fair use is teaching, like when your prof passes out a xeroxed article from the local paper. Quoting part of a book for a critical review is fair use as well, as is quoting for a research paper.
They can distribute it. That's what distributors do. So do libraries and used bookstores. I do it every Christmas, my in-laws are ravenous readers.
But no one can publish it without your ok, which I hope involves some filthy lucre.
I don't mean to take you to task for any imprecision in what you said, I was just making trying to make a point regarding the first sale doctrine. And I wanted to point out that distribution is different from publishing. Publishing involves copying or printing the book, which infringes on the copyright. Distribution is selling or giving away the book.
Ahh, you must be new to /. Annoying typos are just plain fun here. And wanking about typos is something people frequently do when they have nothing to back up their argument.
And I'll point out that I was/i> responding to his statement that "No one can distribute my book under "fair use" copyright law". The term distribute doesn't neccessarily mean printing the book and selling without ever paying royalties.
Libaries loan out books, that's distribution.
I can buy the book and give it away, that's distribution.
I can buy the book and resell it for any price I want, that's distribution, and if I do it on a regular basis, like for a business, that's commercial use. You can't seriously think that the Half-Price Books chain is distributing books on a massive scale. Are they publishing them? No. Distributing them? Yes.
In all of those cases, the author has already gotten his money, but he can't get two bites at the apple. Copyright simply allows people to make money off of their creative work, it doesn't prevent others from making money off it too.
As for fair use, it is not by definition non-infringing, it is simply a defense to infringment. You infringe, get busted for it, then claim fair use in court. If your fair use defense holds up, you're still infringing. Fair use just prevents the copyright holder from pursuing remedies such as damages or an injunction.
It's a good thing you're a professor of astronomy, and not copyright law.
No one can distribute my book under "fair use" copyright law, because it wouldn't be, and certainly commercial distribution is right out.
Just because you're book's still in print doesn't mean that there is no fair use of your book. In fact, the fair use doctrine is what allows people co minimally infringe on your copyright, while the work is still relevant. I can quote parts of your book, even if it is still in print, especially if the parts are relatively short, and I am doing it for teaching, critical or satire purposes.
But you are only partly correct when you state that no one can distribute your book under fair use. If you sell your book to me, and I in turn sell it to a recycled book store, that's legal (First sale doctrine and all, you already got your bucks). The recycled bookstore can resell it, and at a profit also. Can I publish and sell your entire book myself? No. You need to be paid.
And creative commons doesn't change anything about copyright. It's a license, just like the GPL. you still own the copyright to your work, there are just conditions on people using it.
I will agree with your statement about attaching the Copyright notice. I think Dvorak probably heard something about taht in the 1970's. One way to get around copyright for certain works published before 1976 (IIRC) is to find a version published pre'76 without the copyright symbol. Doing so meant it was dedicated to the public. THe Berne convention forced the U.S. to move away from the annoying formalities.
But I agree with you that Dvorka has his head up his arse, He's a frequent understudy in the Billy Goats Gruff.
But the thing is, YOU ALREADY KNOW HE'S THE PRESIDENT. And if you're looking for his current address, it's 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washingto D.C.
I doesn't matter that the author was able to look her name in Google. He had to find out that she was a covert operative before he would know to look her up.
And for what it's worth, it would have been faster to look in "Who's Who in Washington". It list Joseph Wilson, and that he is married to Valerie Wilson. However, nothing this writer looked up told him that she was a covert operative.
THe information he found had nothing to do with her status at the CIA. He knew who someone was and looked up their name. I can see it now:
NEXT ON FOX: covert CIA operatives' cover busted by... COLLEGE FACEBOOKS. COULD IT HAPPEN TO YOU?
Amazon has had something similar for some time with their ratings stars. As you move your mouse across the row of stars, all the stars to the left light up until you click.
Some rely on all 5 of the Big GDSs.
.Net, we had 6-7 Compaq GS system, with the Alpha 64 bit processors for our backend database. Our 2 big ones were GS320s, with 32 Alphas each. We had to have the Compaq guys come in whenever there was a serious hardware issue, but they had 3 or 4 techs there within a couple of hours. (One weekend night, they were replacing a disc controller, and started the replacement at 12:30 at night. Something idn't take, and I didn't get out of there until 5:00a.m. Sunday morning.)
The Company I worked for did the middleware integration. We basically created the entire backend for Travelocity. Oddly enough, Galileo was one of the first GDSs to move to some form of XML messaging. When I first started wiorking at ??? in 2001, we were having to screen scrape the Windows travel agent terminals and translate everything. And this crap-ass system was written in VB 6.0.
Eventually we rewrote it in VB.Net, but that's not much better for high volume systems. (my team all used Delphi)
Even though we used
Needless to say, spending on the travel industry slowed significantly after 9/1, and so a lot of companies in the industry left off more expensive upgrades and development for several years. I imagine we'll be hearing about more significant moves in the next couple years as companies are forced upgrade or die.
Laser cannon? I'm waiting until the interchangeable arm comes with a "Shark with laser" module. Or at least a "really angry sea bass" attachment.
Try voice recognition.
Or just put a pencil in his mouth and let him type everything in with the pencil.
Didn't MTV's Liquid Television have a spoof ad for Lee Press on Limbs? I seem to remember you could get them in plaid.
You don't generate a validation code.
You put in your serial # when you install, then when you run windows for the first time, it connects to a Microsoft server and sends you computer configuration to MS. MS saves the config, and tells your local copy of Windows to stop asking for registration. And every time you try to get a patch, WIndows phones home to see if you're stilll running that copy of windows on the same setup. If not, you have to call tech support.
I replaced my mobo, and later, when windows had to be reinstalled, I had to get a validation code from TS. I reinstalled again the next day, and didn't need it.
because once you eat your cake, you no longer have it. It's gone unless you want to get it slightly recycled 4-8 hours later.
No, they pull a member of the audience up on stge and take a polaroid of him with the cast. You see the grail was under his seat the entire time. THe Show I went to, it was seat b101, down front.
Last year, CM's red team used Lidar, or laser radar. They flipped their Hummer the night before the race, crushing about $400K worth of Raytheon equipment, and it all had to be replaced in one night. Lidar lets you build a pretty good 3d image of the stuff in front of you. CHeck out computer vision on the internet, the simple stuff isn't too difficult to do. I believe one team last year kept having their vehicle mistake bushes for mountains though.
Congratulations, you invented the brushless dc motor, and you managesd to use 16 poles instead of the normal 3-7. Moving the electro magnet to the outside only means that the permanent magnets are in the rotor.
He probably doesn't have 3 million dollars. She went after Yahoo, because, as my first year Torts professor said - Theeeeeere's the deep pockets