Damn English major and I still do not proofread well, anyways here is the correction "can change will (should be while) you are writing" As far as the computer programming I have very little experience beyond scripting but I am just assuming from what I have learned. Most examples of bash scripts that I have learned from to make my own stuff had a direct correlation to their real-world application.
As an English major I find this quite strange, I don't argue things that have little relevance to me. In some cases if I procrastinate I might end up writing something quite lame, though that will usually not recieve a very good grade, because it isn't any good. Usually though I try to find something in the text that I can connect to my life experiences or something of social importance. The mind is a muscle that improves as you challenge it, writing essays requires you to analyze the text more thoroughly. If I happened to turn in a five-paragraph essay similar to the ones most high school students typed I would also fail. An essay does not mean that I put forth some crazy idea and then went on to prove it. It is more like putting forth a hypothesis, after looking over the information at hand (the book) you come up with an idea. You do not have to prove that point, you can even conclude stating that you were wrong and it will still be a good paper. Your topic/hypothesis can change will you are writing the paper. Also people often edit their paper down to remove the meandering, because that will usually cause your audience to put the paper/essay down. Critical thinking in school does not always appear as self-evidently as learning how to program a computer, yet these skills are quite valuable beyond simply analyzing a novel.
Well I guess the article does state it is a published application so it cannot be protest until it comes up for review. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense though sense it is also supposed to take 18 months for it to be published, to allow people time to protest. Strange indeed but you are right and I retract some of my prior statement.
Yes the US Patent website states that the protest must be submitted prior the to the application being publish. "The protest is submitted prior to the date the application was published." The documenation also tells you to submit your protest to the application using the application number, "A protest under 37 CFR 1.291(a) must be submitted in writing, must specifically identify the application to which the protest is directed by application number or serial number and filing date." After reviewing this documentation I believe that a "published" application appears about 18 months after the application has been submitted. I believe in this case the Microsoft application has not yet recieved aproval, hence the title of the article. As far as prior art, that is what you would use in submitting a protest to the patent office once again according to the the documentation from the Patent office, "e following are examples of the kinds of information, in addition to prior art documents,..." But since I am not a lawyer this all my own personal understanding of what the actual documentation states. If "publish" was to mean any application that has been submitted and that can be viewed on the US Patent office webstie would render protests useless. They may be useless but the fact is one cannot be expected to protest a patent before the other has submitted it for approval. How would you know Microsoft has an application submitted that you wanted to protest?
Well if you read the first section of the document provided in the link from the US Patent Office it states "Any member of the public, including private persons, corporate entities, and government agencies, may file a protest under 37 CFR 1.291. "
I don't see the connection between AOL making non-compliant webpages but hey whatever.
I was just looking around on the USPTO website and came accross the methods which can be used to protest a pending patent. I am not quite sure where to find evidence that it is prior art, beyond just stating that it has been on my linux box as long as I have used linux. This definatley makes it before XP.
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Damn English major and I still do not proofread well, anyways here is the correction "can change will (should be while) you are writing" As far as the computer programming I have very little experience beyond scripting but I am just assuming from what I have learned. Most examples of bash scripts that I have learned from to make my own stuff had a direct correlation to their real-world application.
As an English major I find this quite strange, I don't argue things that have little relevance to me. In some cases if I procrastinate I might end up writing something quite lame, though that will usually not recieve a very good grade, because it isn't any good. Usually though I try to find something in the text that I can connect to my life experiences or something of social importance. The mind is a muscle that improves as you challenge it, writing essays requires you to analyze the text more thoroughly. If I happened to turn in a five-paragraph essay similar to the ones most high school students typed I would also fail. An essay does not mean that I put forth some crazy idea and then went on to prove it. It is more like putting forth a hypothesis, after looking over the information at hand (the book) you come up with an idea. You do not have to prove that point, you can even conclude stating that you were wrong and it will still be a good paper. Your topic/hypothesis can change will you are writing the paper. Also people often edit their paper down to remove the meandering, because that will usually cause your audience to put the paper/essay down. Critical thinking in school does not always appear as self-evidently as learning how to program a computer, yet these skills are quite valuable beyond simply analyzing a novel.
Oh and me once again. Yes it has been over 18 months the top date is the published date and and there is another date of the submission.
Well I guess the article does state it is a published application so it cannot be protest until it comes up for review. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense though sense it is also supposed to take 18 months for it to be published, to allow people time to protest. Strange indeed but you are right and I retract some of my prior statement.
Yes the US Patent website states that the protest must be submitted prior the to the application being publish. "The protest is submitted prior to the date the application was published." The documenation also tells you to submit your protest to the application using the application number, "A protest under 37 CFR 1.291(a) must be submitted in writing, must specifically identify the application to which the protest is directed by application number or serial number and filing date." After reviewing this documentation I believe that a "published" application appears about 18 months after the application has been submitted. I believe in this case the Microsoft application has not yet recieved aproval, hence the title of the article. As far as prior art, that is what you would use in submitting a protest to the patent office once again according to the the documentation from the Patent office, "e following are examples of the kinds of information, in addition to prior art documents,..." But since I am not a lawyer this all my own personal understanding of what the actual documentation states. If "publish" was to mean any application that has been submitted and that can be viewed on the US Patent office webstie would render protests useless. They may be useless but the fact is one cannot be expected to protest a patent before the other has submitted it for approval. How would you know Microsoft has an application submitted that you wanted to protest?
Well if you read the first section of the document provided in the link from the US Patent Office it states "Any member of the public, including private persons, corporate entities, and government agencies, may file a protest under 37 CFR 1.291. " I don't see the connection between AOL making non-compliant webpages but hey whatever.
Here is the link to the Patent Protest Document.