Is your bike good enough to have a patent on it? What’s your patent#?
09-21-09, 09:36 PM
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A date with patentcad goes something like this:
"ME ME ME ME ME MEEEE. Arent I great? But lets talk about you....what do you think about me??"
"ME ME ME ME ME MEEEE. Arent I great? But lets talk about you....what do you think about me??"
09-21-09, 09:41 PM
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09-21-09, 10:26 PM
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I love the title of this thread. As if patents determine 'goodness' of a frame. We all know it's the stickers.
09-21-09, 10:29 PM
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09-22-09, 12:08 AM
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What I love is the idiocy of patent offices, which have granted patents on such things as:
1. Gravity (granted to Boeing)
2. Telemarketing (yes, the concept)
3. Any form of communication using an electrical signal, i.e. phone, cable tv, internet, or anything else in which a message is encoded into electrical charge
4. The use of any form of multimedia for the purpose of education (I was sued by the patent holder over this when I was head of curriculum for a college)
5. The sending of educational content over the internet (I was sued over this as well)
Mind you, in 4 and 5 above, it wasn't the content that was being argued via a copyright infringement lawsuit, it was the very act of using multimedia in an educational setting or educational content over the internet.
Check with your local school district or college, they have probably been sued over this. The patent holders send cease and desist letters which also suggest they would be willing to settle for a mere pittance, say $10,000 or so.
1. Gravity (granted to Boeing)
2. Telemarketing (yes, the concept)
3. Any form of communication using an electrical signal, i.e. phone, cable tv, internet, or anything else in which a message is encoded into electrical charge
4. The use of any form of multimedia for the purpose of education (I was sued by the patent holder over this when I was head of curriculum for a college)
5. The sending of educational content over the internet (I was sued over this as well)
Mind you, in 4 and 5 above, it wasn't the content that was being argued via a copyright infringement lawsuit, it was the very act of using multimedia in an educational setting or educational content over the internet.
Check with your local school district or college, they have probably been sued over this. The patent holders send cease and desist letters which also suggest they would be willing to settle for a mere pittance, say $10,000 or so.
Do you have links to 1 or 3?
I think Boeing has the patent on using the Moon's gravity to slingshot around it, not on gravity itself.
As for 3, I don't think anyone has a patent on the internet. Not that I can find anyway. If you mean something such as a protocol, like DNP3, then yes, there are patents on that, because it's not exactly common sense to make up a complicated communication protocol.
I think Boeing has the patent on using the Moon's gravity to slingshot around it, not on gravity itself.
As for 3, I don't think anyone has a patent on the internet. Not that I can find anyway. If you mean something such as a protocol, like DNP3, then yes, there are patents on that, because it's not exactly common sense to make up a complicated communication protocol.
"...due to a ridiculous patent on the concept of a lunar flyby...that Boeing happens to own a patent on doing this sort of lunar flyby, despite the fact that you can't patent physics."
Another link in the techdirt article takes you to the Space Travel web site with an article on the same topic. That article notes:"the patent is regarded as legal "trite", as basic physics has been rebranded as a "process", and that the patent wouldn't stand up to any significant level of court scrutiny and was only registered at the time as "the patent office was incompetent when it came to space matters"."
techdirt did provide this useful link to the Boeing patent.If you look at the Boeing patent you will see that it is anything but "trite." Also, I'd be surprised if the US Patent Office was "incompetent" on space matter during the time period after 1998 (the year of the filing for the Boeing patent).
A friend of mine designed the rear suspension on the Ellsworth Truth and Dare bikes. Specialized sued him TWO times and LOST for patent infringement. My friend said it was well known at that time that Specialized was suing all the small companies with innovative rear suspension designs in the interest of either driving them out of the marketplace or sucking royalties out of them for their "patented" system. Specialized has deep pockets and a heavy handed mentality. F'um.
A recent interview with Tony Ellsworth on bikeradar.com makes no mention of the dispute and Tony notes that he has a patent on his suspension design that he got shortly after Horst Leitner got his patent -- the patent that Horst licensed to Specialized.
Look you can buy what you want for whatever reasons that you want. But don't use poorly researched "facts" to substantiate your opinions.
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