Re:Gypped
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Halo 3 Review
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· Score: 2, Informative
It is an ethnic slur to Gypsies. I am not that informed on the subject, but it probably refers to the nomadic people of Eastern Europe, and the term basically labels them all as cheats.
The "first-to-invent" is the system where if an application is rejected over prior art that is within one (1) year of the filing date (or priority date, which could be a provisional application, foreign application, or another US case) the applicant can file an affidavit swearing that they where the "first-to-invent". This means they can "swear back" upto 1 year behind their filing, or priority date. They need evidence to prove they were the "first-to-invent", which can be very subjective.
The "first-to-file" system gets rid of these affidavit's and makes the filing, or priority, date the day of invention. If prior art was filed, published (meaning it was available to the public, but no one actually had to have seen it), etc, before the day of filing, it qualifies as prior art.
Mod parent up. This is the way the system works, and in fact it gets more expensive to keep the patent every time you need to pay maintenance fees.
37 C.F.R. 1.20 (e) - (h)
This tells us that after 4 years you have to pay $900 (half if small entity)
After 8 years it's $2,300
After 12 years it's $3,800
So, if they don't pay, these patents go into public domain. Therefore, if these patent's are still valid, who would give up their rights to them?
The solution is to ask these very generous inventors (corporations) to stop paying maintenance fees.
I've seen some work done on this problem and it basically boils down to this:
You apply a watermark that uses perceptual coding to its advantage (i.e. it only alters bits that survive lossy encoding). The bits are only altered by an amount that cannot be easily heard by the user, but by using statistical analysis, such as correlation equations, the embedded data can be retrieved. Of course, there is some error, but by applying this algorithm to many blocks of data in one song or to random blocks in the song, you can create some redundancy and increase the chance that a watermark can be retrieved.
But Mpeg-2 refers to the Mpeg-1 standard. You need the first to understand certain aspects of the second (e.g. Mpeg-4 standard refers back to the Mpeg-2 standard). However, I am not an expert on what is contained in both, and I was just alluding to the fact that, since TFA doesn't go into detail on what Alcatel-Lucent's patents pertain to, we cannot say that AAC is in the clear.
You do realize that MP3 is part of the MPEG-1 Standard, and that AAC is part of the MPEG-2 standard. Furthermore, the MPEG-2 standard builds on the MPEG-1 standard, so I don't think that would save it from these troubles. Of course, I didn't look at the claims of the patents that were mentioned in the article, but AAC is built upon MP3.
FWIW, maybe, just maybe, the windshield defroster in my car is on so I can see through the windows. Unfortunately, or fotunately, my Honda Civic forces the A/C unit on when the defroster is selected. Seems to clear the windows pretty quickly on a cold and rainy day, so I think this is a good thing. Again, YMMV.
Aha... another example is the Digital Audio Tape (DAT). These tapes are far more expensive than their data counterpart (DDS) due to the tax the RIAA has already incorporated in the price.
Too bad for the RIAA most DAT recorders can use the DDS tapes, which do not have the tax included in the price.
And too bad data CD-R's on computers can record digital audio. What's an evil corporate conglomerate to do?
Re:SIR: Statutory Invention Registration
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Public Patents?
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· Score: 2, Interesting
From what I understand, SIR's are not that common, but they should be. They certainly would be more visible to an examiner. There's too many places to search in the course of a patent examination, especially given that an examiner usually only has 8 to 15 hours, given experience and type of invention, to examine the case and find prior art. Some time has to be spent on reading and understanding the invention and writing up the findings. Doesn't leave much time for a thorough examination.
SIR's should be free, because no one has to examine them. Examiner's have less databases to search to find related teachings.
Congress certainly won't let the Patent Office offer free examination. Congress relies on the Patent System's fees to balance their budget defecits. Congress would not legislate away a source of income.
The date reads 2005-02-15, because that is roughly when the patent was allowed by the patent office. The day the patent was filed, 1999-10-21, is the date that matters in the case. For any art, i.e. reference, to be prior art, it has to have a publishing date prior to October 21, 1999.
The patent office is now typically issuing patents that have been filed 3-4 years ago. There are some exceptions to this, because some art units, i.e. groups of examiners, which examine a specific field, have a bigger backlog than others.
University of California has many campuses and many domains. Think UC Berkely, UCSD, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Riverside, UCSF, etc... So as you can see the University of California is huge, and not just that famous one south of San Francisco.
eh whoops... that is a claim... damn that is Huffman coding. Hmmm, easily overturned assuming the review board gets the right prior art in front of it.
Is that a CLAIM? or just part of the abstract, specification, etc... Because, as we should all know the claims are the only enforceable part of a patent.
He wouldn't have stopped anything, but he would have appointed different people in those important positions. It would have been different but still bad. No president has control over local state's government (for the most part), and Louisiana still would have been screwed.
Yeah because my subscription to the Economist is always getting held up by the USPO, and when I do get it, it's all censored, blacked-out text everywhere.
It's only obvious that the US gov't wants to stop this too!!!!
It's not a patent. It's a patent APPLICATION. It's not enforceable, it probably hasn't even received a response from the USPTO. It was published, that is all.
In the 70's and 80's it meant that you would move around in the U.S. with each promotion, in the 90's you've been moved to the unemployment line, and now it's the job that's moved continents.
It may, but they also don't take into account new graduates as unemployed. I know I wasn't figured into the equation when I was "unemployed" between June '03 and July '04.
It seems to me that on average most graduates these days are unemployed for about a year, but some one might also point out that this is largely due to some people's reluctance to become underemployed and go work at the local Wal-Mart (shudder) or the acceptance of daddy's money (I was guilty of this by living at home while job hunting).
"While I agree that some people are unaware of that, they probably ought to stay away from malicious sites to begin with."
Because we all know the users can tell the difference between the real thing and the malicious site, unless of course your method of staying away has them disconnecting their internet connection.
The patent text shows that the inventor thought of gloves. One embodiement has the user wearing gloves with sensors, another the steering wheel needs periodic contact for the engine to keep running.
US Patent Text from uspto.org
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It is an ethnic slur to Gypsies. I am not that informed on the subject, but it probably refers to the nomadic people of Eastern Europe, and the term basically labels them all as cheats.
Ha, I was just thinking along those lines. How long until a photo journalist or someone else edits out a subject with this tool.
It'll never happen in [insert country here], it could only happen once, right?.
Wikipedia link to Nikolai Yezhov
The "first-to-invent" is the system where if an application is rejected over prior art that is within one (1) year of the filing date (or priority date, which could be a provisional application, foreign application, or another US case) the applicant can file an affidavit swearing that they where the "first-to-invent". This means they can "swear back" upto 1 year behind their filing, or priority date. They need evidence to prove they were the "first-to-invent", which can be very subjective.
The "first-to-file" system gets rid of these affidavit's and makes the filing, or priority, date the day of invention. If prior art was filed, published (meaning it was available to the public, but no one actually had to have seen it), etc, before the day of filing, it qualifies as prior art.
Forgot the proper link format.
37 C.F.R. 1.20 (e)-(h)
Mod parent up. This is the way the system works, and in fact it gets more expensive to keep the patent every time you need to pay maintenance fees.
37 C.F.R. 1.20 (e) - (h)
This tells us that after 4 years you have to pay $900 (half if small entity)
After 8 years it's $2,300
After 12 years it's $3,800
So, if they don't pay, these patents go into public domain. Therefore, if these patent's are still valid, who would give up their rights to them?
The solution is to ask these very generous inventors (corporations) to stop paying maintenance fees.
I've seen some work done on this problem and it basically boils down to this:
You apply a watermark that uses perceptual coding to its advantage (i.e. it only alters bits that survive lossy encoding). The bits are only altered by an amount that cannot be easily heard by the user, but by using statistical analysis, such as correlation equations, the embedded data can be retrieved. Of course, there is some error, but by applying this algorithm to many blocks of data in one song or to random blocks in the song, you can create some redundancy and increase the chance that a watermark can be retrieved.
But Mpeg-2 refers to the Mpeg-1 standard. You need the first to understand certain aspects of the second (e.g. Mpeg-4 standard refers back to the Mpeg-2 standard). However, I am not an expert on what is contained in both, and I was just alluding to the fact that, since TFA doesn't go into detail on what Alcatel-Lucent's patents pertain to, we cannot say that AAC is in the clear.
You do realize that MP3 is part of the MPEG-1 Standard, and that AAC is part of the MPEG-2 standard. Furthermore, the MPEG-2 standard builds on the MPEG-1 standard, so I don't think that would save it from these troubles. Of course, I didn't look at the claims of the patents that were mentioned in the article, but AAC is built upon MP3.
FWIW, maybe, just maybe, the windshield defroster in my car is on so I can see through the windows. Unfortunately, or fotunately, my Honda Civic forces the A/C unit on when the defroster is selected. Seems to clear the windows pretty quickly on a cold and rainy day, so I think this is a good thing. Again, YMMV.
Aha... another example is the Digital Audio Tape (DAT). These tapes are far more expensive than their data counterpart (DDS) due to the tax the RIAA has already incorporated in the price.
Too bad for the RIAA most DAT recorders can use the DDS tapes, which do not have the tax included in the price.
And too bad data CD-R's on computers can record digital audio. What's an evil corporate conglomerate to do?
From what I understand, SIR's are not that common, but they should be. They certainly would be more visible to an examiner. There's too many places to search in the course of a patent examination, especially given that an examiner usually only has 8 to 15 hours, given experience and type of invention, to examine the case and find prior art. Some time has to be spent on reading and understanding the invention and writing up the findings. Doesn't leave much time for a thorough examination.
SIR's should be free, because no one has to examine them. Examiner's have less databases to search to find related teachings.
Congress certainly won't let the Patent Office offer free examination. Congress relies on the Patent System's fees to balance their budget defecits. Congress would not legislate away a source of income.
The date reads 2005-02-15, because that is roughly when the patent was allowed by the patent office. The day the patent was filed, 1999-10-21, is the date that matters in the case. For any art, i.e. reference, to be prior art, it has to have a publishing date prior to October 21, 1999.
The patent office is now typically issuing patents that have been filed 3-4 years ago. There are some exceptions to this, because some art units, i.e. groups of examiners, which examine a specific field, have a bigger backlog than others.
University of California has many campuses and many domains. Think UC Berkely, UCSD, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UC Riverside, UCSF, etc... So as you can see the University of California is huge, and not just that famous one south of San Francisco.
eh whoops... that is a claim... damn that is Huffman coding. Hmmm, easily overturned assuming the review board gets the right prior art in front of it.
Is that a CLAIM? or just part of the abstract, specification, etc...
Because, as we should all know the claims are the only enforceable part of a patent.
Clinton was technically impeached, but did Al Gore become president?
He wouldn't have stopped anything, but he would have appointed different people in those important positions. It would have been different but still bad. No president has control over local state's government (for the most part), and Louisiana still would have been screwed.
Yeah because my subscription to the Economist is always getting held up by the USPO, and when I do get it, it's all censored, blacked-out text everywhere.
It's only obvious that the US gov't wants to stop this too!!!!
It's not a patent. It's a patent APPLICATION. It's not enforceable, it probably hasn't even received a response from the USPTO. It was published, that is all.
Yes high noise low signal... low snr. High SNR good, low SNR bad.
It always and will remain to stand for:
I've Been Moved
In the 70's and 80's it meant that you would move around in the U.S. with each promotion, in the 90's you've been moved to the unemployment line, and now it's the job that's moved continents.
It may, but they also don't take into account new graduates as unemployed. I know I wasn't figured into the equation when I was "unemployed" between June '03 and July '04. It seems to me that on average most graduates these days are unemployed for about a year, but some one might also point out that this is largely due to some people's reluctance to become underemployed and go work at the local Wal-Mart (shudder) or the acceptance of daddy's money (I was guilty of this by living at home while job hunting).
"While I agree that some people are unaware of that, they probably ought to stay away from malicious sites to begin with." Because we all know the users can tell the difference between the real thing and the malicious site, unless of course your method of staying away has them disconnecting their internet connection.
The patent text shows that the inventor thought of gloves. One embodiement has the user wearing gloves with sensors, another the steering wheel needs periodic contact for the engine to keep running. US Patent Text from uspto.org
The patents have parent claims back to November 1995. When did the Rumble Pack come out?