patent-misuse
Classic case of me-first-patent fight… WRIGHT BROTHER
The Wright Brothers were the two great inventors of the first controlled, heavier-than-air craft. Unfortunately for them, many other people made the same claim, or ignored their achievement.
Background
On 17 December, 1903, the Wrights managed to build a craft capable of heavier-than-air flight and applied for a patent. Over the years it took to grant this [...]
A five-year-old kid from Minnesota has patented a way of swinging on a child’s swing.
The US Patent Office issued patent 6,368,227 on 9 April 2002 to Steven Olson of St Paul, Minnesota for a “method of swinging on a swing”. Olson’s father Peter is a patent attorney.The award has generated a mixture of chuckles and frustration at an overworked patent system unable to catch absurd applications. The patent covers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )PATENTS DECLARED INVALID BY THE PTO OR THE COURTS
The following software patents have been invalidated either by the PTO during a patent reexamination(R) or by the courts as a ruling in a patent infringement lawsuit(I), or rendered unenforceable/useless by the courts or public actions (U), or the patent was withdrawn (W) either by the PTO or the applicant after realizing shortly before patent [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Patent office in question
Some questions :
Should the Patent and Trademark Office be issuing 20,000+ new software patents every year?
Is there that much novel and unobvious, unpublished, innovation in the software industry?
Are biotechnology patents really avoiding these problems, especially as biotechnology patents incorporate more and more computer technology?
Probably not, and thus your company or law firm will need resources [...]
Just for your eyes….Patent Application 20060014125
United States Patent Application 20060014125 to John Quincy St. Clair entitled “Walking through walls training system”.
According to the abstract, this invention is a training system which enables a human being to acquire sufficient hyperspace energy in order to pull the body out of dimension so that the person can walk through solid objects such as [...]
Method of exercising a cat [United States Patent 5443036]
Inventors::Amiss, Kevin T.Abbott, Martin H. (Fairfax, VA, US)
Abstract:: A method for inducing cats to exercise consists of directing a beam of invisible light produced by a hand-held laser apparatus onto the floor or wall or other opaque surface in the vicinity of the cat, then moving the laser so as to cause the bright pattern [...]
