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Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale

From kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey)
Newsgroups comp.dsp, comp.speech.research, comp.arch.embedded, comp.arch.fpga, rec.audio.pro
Subject Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale
Date 2011-11-04 10:58 -0400
Organization Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000)
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hamilton  <hamilton@nothere.com> wrote:
>
>What was the patent examiner thinking !!
>
>He looked out his window, saw a bunch of cars with "lighted" license 
>plates, and said, they are not "Illuminated" license plate and decided 
>there was no prior art.

That is the basic problem with the USPTO today.  There are huge numbers of
patents coming in, and not a lot of money, so they hire some pretty clueless
examiners.

Consequently a whole lot of totally useless patents get approved, but once
they get approved, they stay in the system.  We have now come to a time when
just having a patent is not enough to be useful because a patent is no longer
automatically presumed to be valid just because it was issued.

>Where is it all going......  SHS (Shacking Head Slowly)

Personally, I liked the ham sandwich patent best, although Microsoft's
patent on the ring buffer is even more hilarious.  The software patents are
really the worst, because hiring people who actually know something about
the history of programming is difficult and so consequently the software
examiners tend to know even less about the state of the field they are 
approving patents in.
--scott

-- 
"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

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Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Dude Whocares <ipisgold@gmail.com> - 2011-10-30 21:40 -0700
  Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale robert bristow-johnson <rbj@audioimagination.com> - 2011-10-31 01:38 -0400
    Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam@nowhere.com> - 2011-10-31 01:05 -0500
    Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam@nowhere.com> - 2011-10-31 01:05 -0500
  Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Regis <quelavor@netscape.net> - 2011-11-01 07:10 -0700
    Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale fatalist <simfidude@gmail.com> - 2011-11-01 08:20 -0700
      Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Vladimir Vassilevsky <nospam@nowhere.com> - 2011-11-02 09:33 -0500
      Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Regis <quelavor@netscape.net> - 2011-11-03 03:57 -0700
        Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale fatalist <simfidude@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 07:57 -0700
  Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale brent <bulegoge@columbus.rr.com> - 2011-11-03 10:18 -0700
    Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale fatalist <simfidude@gmail.com> - 2011-11-03 11:29 -0700
      Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale brent <bulegoge@columbus.rr.com> - 2011-11-03 18:08 -0700
        Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale hamilton <hamilton@nothere.com> - 2011-11-03 22:30 -0600
          Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2011-11-04 10:58 -0400
            Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale "Neil Gould" <neil@myplaceofwork.com> - 2011-11-04 10:09 -0500
            Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Christopher Felton <cfelton@hidem.co> - 2011-11-04 10:20 -0500
            Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Rick <richardcortese@gmail.com> - 2011-11-04 16:21 -0700
              Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Regis <quelavor@netscape.net> - 2011-11-07 02:03 -0800
                Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale fatalist <simfidude@gmail.com> - 2011-11-07 06:40 -0800
                Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Regis <quelavor@netscape.net> - 2011-11-08 07:37 -0800
                Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale fatalist <simfidude@gmail.com> - 2011-11-08 09:18 -0800
                Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale Regis <quelavor@netscape.net> - 2011-11-09 06:51 -0800
                Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale fatalist <simfidude@gmail.com> - 2011-11-09 07:16 -0800

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