If it is considered to be found in the "prior art" then it cannot be registered as a patent. Simple.
Whilst I am on this topic, I would like to point out that the USA has a very broad system for defining prior art, novelty and utility. Unlike the UK, Australia and Canada - they have very strict and narrow interpretations of patent law.
Hence, if a patent is granted in the USA, it does not mean that the same patent would be granted in countries like Australia, UK, etc.
Then again, with international treaties such as TRIPs, countries who are a member of the TRIPs agreement are meant to enforce foreign IP, e.g. patents. Hence the UK is meant to recognise and enforce USA patents and vice versa.
So you could say that if you cannot get your patent approved in the UK or Australia, go get it registered in the good old USA. That will provide you some protection given the obligations on a country by the TRIPs argeement.
Graphics are meaningless. But you can't sell a game unless it has cool screen shots eh?
What I need are story lines! Also an atmosphere and good characters. Take a look at games like Final Fantasy VI and Xenogears. These are good examples.
To be honest, I haven't come across a GOOD game for a while.
Pretty sad eh? Oh well.. gives me more time to study!:-)
btw, why aren't they counting all the lines of code in the library? bit misleading don't you think? 6 libraries were used in Mr. Ed's code... hmm.. can anyone be bothered counting how many lines of code are used in each library. Coz I can't. All I'm saying is that it is actually more than just 15 lines of code. They're all in the libraries.
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Quite possible. Firefox is open source. They won't need to put in a toolbar or anything.
Let's hope no sickos do this to the open source community.
Maybe we will have to start educating the common user to check MD5 sums.
If it is considered to be found in the "prior art" then it cannot be registered as a patent. Simple.
Whilst I am on this topic, I would like to point out that the USA has a very broad system for defining prior art, novelty and utility. Unlike the UK, Australia and Canada - they have very strict and narrow interpretations of patent law.
Hence, if a patent is granted in the USA, it does not mean that the same patent would be granted in countries like Australia, UK, etc.
Then again, with international treaties such as TRIPs, countries who are a member of the TRIPs agreement are meant to enforce foreign IP, e.g. patents. Hence the UK is meant to recognise and enforce USA patents and vice versa.
So you could say that if you cannot get your patent approved in the UK or Australia, go get it registered in the good old USA. That will provide you some protection given the obligations on a country by the TRIPs argeement.
Don't crack that last part people!
:-)
If you do, the artist is gonna hunt you down and sue you! (Unless she is from Harvard...)
Maybe its time the artist brings out a patch to cover up all those past security flaws
roflcopter....
Can't wait for someone to program a robot so that it can get a red card for smashing another robot... or at least pushing a robot over.
That'll be sooooo cool!!!
It sounds like Arnie suggested this to Bush over dinner or something.
Guess he really wants to do Terminator 4....
Looks like he'll just have to put a webcam on one of these things!
It's the terrorist's new weapon! They just need to sell enough diamonds to buy really big hoses!
The same in Australia with the Spam Act 2003. Political emails (even if unsolicited) are not considered to be spam.
Just wondering... is this bad rep with custom software based on projects before 2000?
Cant wait for them to come out! :-)
Well said! :-)
Don't you want that extra fresh breath? You'll get that from building this MP3 player! ;-)
When Disney discovers what a patent is....
Yes free is good! Right on! Publish all the free stuff you can /.
Right on dude! Lets /. em
Graphics are meaningless. But you can't sell a game unless it has cool screen shots eh? What I need are story lines! Also an atmosphere and good characters. Take a look at games like Final Fantasy VI and Xenogears. These are good examples. To be honest, I haven't come across a GOOD game for a while. Pretty sad eh? Oh well.. gives me more time to study! :-)
Subject says it all.
ViM RockS!! or any old plain text editor.
Yeah this a dupe
btw, why aren't they counting all the lines of code in the library? bit misleading don't you think? 6 libraries were used in Mr. Ed's code... hmm.. can anyone be bothered counting how many lines of code are used in each library. Coz I can't. All I'm saying is that it is actually more than just 15 lines of code. They're all in the libraries.
nuff said.