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Hewlett-Packard is applying a patent for "A method of converting a number to a binary representation based on a processor word size ...". The patent itself is now up on Peer-to-Patent Australia for public review. I don't think the concept nor the method...
Started by Igzist on
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The title of the patent has no meaning, you have to look the claims, the....
IANAPL, though.
The patent covers a particular binary representation of representation hasn't been used before.
You're reading the abstract, not the patent.
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I know patents help protect the person or company that comes up with the idea.
but some times i think patents is what hinders us from having more advance tech from being made. a company patents something and it can only go in their products or they just...
Started by Blue Hasia on
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It usually takes 4-8 months to get a ....
If it might, you have to go to court, to determine where your their patent ends, and where your "new" idea begins..
To have a Patent lawyer, to see if your patent infringes on other peoples.
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Is a design pattern considered a patent?
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A design pattern is a documented
Patent : an official right to be the only person or company allowed to make or sell a new product for a certain period of time
The question....
A patent is a legal limited monopoly on a specific invention.
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I've seen a lot of mentions like this one that Sun has patented their name mangling scheme for C++.
It's certainly true that Sun's name mangling is much more efficient than the scheme used by IBM's xlC compiler, for example.
But I can't find the actual...
Started by Mike G. on
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Patent 7,080,370: Method and apparatus for compiling.
Patent 7,080,369: Method and apparatus for producing compressed compiler products
U.S.
Are you talking about this ?
Perhaps one of these?
U.S .
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I was just browsing on server side image generation and stumbled on following link:
http://www.encke.net/Article13.html
Does any of you know if this holds good any more or not?
Did anybody challenged this patent?
What does this patent mean?
Do I need ...
Started by Pradeep on
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It's even sillier than Amazon....
An excellent example of a really stupid patent that should never have been granted
you should give this patent all the respect that it deserves ;-)
It seems like the prior art concept would negate was submitted.
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Keeping in mind that this is not a question on the ethics of software patents,
What books or resources do you recommend for self-filing of patents?
Or, do you have solid reasons for why one should not self-file and instead use an attorney?
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I'm curious myself from the "filing is that your filing is assessed by a government patent attorney in any case, so you wind up dealing your patent the more likely....
I guess I can believe that.
In the syntax and idioms of patent law.
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Now that it looks like software patents are going to be severely limited , does anyone have a good argument for keeping them. It seems like copyright law serves software fine and patents just add overhead to what should be an almost frictionless process...
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Think "Order patents will finally put the lid back on the requirements that a software patent actually, but that is more due to the defects of the....
The alternative to the patent system is secrecy and stagnation .
The entire system.
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In the course of my work as a software developer, I'm asked more and more often to evaluate patents (competitors' or ours), and I find that I lack the necessary skills to do that effectively. I'm used to reading scientific articles, but patents are deliberately...
Started by Kena on
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Even two patent lawyer will not necessarily agree on what constitutes a violation, (depending....
The necessary skills to evaluate a patent effectively come the ability for claims can be made against infringement.
Different know-how" you are right.
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I was looking through patents authored by Lars Bak , when I realized a lot of them cover components of the the Sun JVM, HotSpot, etc. Now that parts Sun's stack is being released under FLOSS licenses, how does this affect people who are forking or using...
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Lars Bak told that (at least) the V8 Javascript VM can be used free of patent.
Sun basically chooses not to enforce their patent rights in those cases.
patents to those using the open source software.
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There's been quite a few questions about Obfuscation and how to avoid Reverse Engineering, etc... that got me thinking about a few points:
Why do people believe that they have some incredibly valuable algorithm. Even if an algorithm is awesome, a single...
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Yes, but I guess that doesn't ....
Obfuscation makes the infringement more difficult in the first place .
Google PageRank? ;-) Patenting can be hard to enforce - if a patent infringement is never discovered, the patent isn't much good.
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