Posts by Steve Barnes
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As I said, don't underestimate the deterrent effect of a patent or patent application.
As I said
If you have enough money "All of your patent are belong to us".
You must acknowledge that the only people that make real money out of patents... are Lawyers, Shriley?
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For the purpose of examining patents, it is assumed that the innovative step must not be obvious to an expert in the field.
Which is why software patent fall outside simple mechanical patent. If the innovative step is not obvious to an expert in the field it must be illogical and therefore a non functioning routine or a routine specifically designed to circumvent existing software patent and as such a complete nonsense.
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Unfortunately, there are some inventions that you just can't usefully keep secret - the moment you release them to the public your competitors can easily work out how to copy them.
This particular conversation was about a process rather that a product, unless your competition wanders around your factory and poking his nose in nook and crannies where no nose should go then he would no nothing of the process itself. If we were talking about a manufacturing machine built to market then I would agree wholeheartedly.
The Patent process specifically refers to manner of manufacture rather than the product itself, or am I reading that wrong? so are we talking about process rather than product?
This case in point is that they can extract a valuable substance at a far lower cost than their competition. This would seem to be exactly what patents were designed for but as I said, it is no real protection, without going to a great deal of legal expense, against a very wealthy competitor.
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He's a Visitor. Seize him!
Yeah, those wires hanging out of his ears are a dead give away, apparently they are attached to a device called a Pod or something, who's he listening to? where does he get his orders?
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Pacific Equity, strangling every publisher & book-seller they can...*
Oh come on I, That's not all they do and They've been doing it a while too
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Ah Huge Grayham.
Was it not you that got Telecom to include Ivan Itchyanus in the directory?. -
Tony Amos is my new personal Jesus.
Say it ain't so Jo, please say it ain't so...
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I can't help it. Every time I watch a clip on YT I have to read the comments, most of them are mind numbingly dull, stupid, pointless, racist, sexist, insulting, juvenile, grammatically incomprehensible
rubbish but I have to read them. I suppose I have a need to try and understand why the world seems so thick.
Then I came across TBGONZ on YT. What a delight, Orange on Orange and a layout a blind man would be glad to see, for a short time anyway.
No comments for 17 months, 4 comments in all 2 of them from the same person and one from the producer, it saved so much of my valuable time.
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From my point of view the problem with ACTA is no different to my problem with patents in general, it is the province of the wealthy (individual or corporation) If you have enough money "All of your patent are belong to us". The reason for the secrecy is the same as it always is, they want the law in place before anybody has the chance to oppose it.
I was in conversation with an IP lawyer yesterday who was asked by a friend of mine if it was worth patenting a process he and his partner had developed, what he said was interesting.
To be granted a patent you have to divulge your process which allows others, with more power than you will ever have, access to your work. If they infringe your patent you are fucked. If, on the other hand you just keep it a secret then you are a lot less likely to have your process nicked. You are better off developing your "Brand" in terms of reliability, quality and uniqueness rather than trying to be protected by law. This is why we, as a small Nation, do not need this trade agreement, what we need to do is develop and protect our reputation (ie, no bloody mining in conservation areas thank you very much). We do not need this agreement to prove that something claiming to be from NZ is or is not, the genuine article. -
Congrats Bro, as they say in circles I rarely move in. I shall be badgering Borders and Whitcoulls, even though I have a copy already.
Oh so true on so many levels on the News front. I swear I can sit there some nights and recite (presite?) the the guff as it flops from the mouths of the talking heads, so predictable, so impotent.I was engaged by life on many other levels (notably learning my way around an Apple Mac) and currently just weep for Thailand
I know what you mean. Last time I had anything to do with a Mac I had frustration for Africa.