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Re: Fundamental DSP/speech processing patent for sale

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On 11/4/11 9:58 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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.

NPR planet money did some, recent, interesting investigation into the 
patent world.  In one segment they indicated that the patent office is 
one of the only government offices that operates at a net positive 
(bring in more money than they spend).

But they are not allowed to use that money for hiring etc.  They are 
given a fixed budget each year and the gross proceeds are used by 
congress for other pet projects.  They eluded this is one of the 
problems with patent reform, because it is a source of income.

.chris

>
> 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
>

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  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
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  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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