art wrote:
The bottom line should be is EZNEC accurate? Has the programming been
held within the confines provided by the original provider'
the U.S. government. Who overseas the content of this so called
program. If it has a patent then all would or should be revealed
in the patent disclosure.

No. A patent must disclose enough of the method so that someone
"versed in the art" of programing could reproduce it. That's pretty
vague. I might be able to look at the patent and reproduce or better
the process easily, while you look at it and scratch your head. Or vice
versa.

Obviously the more complete a patent application is and the simpler it
is to understand, the more likely it is to be granted and the easier it
will be to explain to a jury in an infringment case. It does not
need to be simple or easy to understand and most are not.

Then as you alluded to later in your comments, there is the whole problem
of implementation. Without a lot of effort, a home computer version of
most scientific programs will produce meaningless results due to
lack of precision.

Experienced scientific and engineering programers know this and compensate.
"Teach yourself Visual whatever in a week" programmers don't.

The biggest problem with visual whatever programmers is they tend to
be seduced by the flashy interface and ignore the substance under it.

Caveat Emptor.

Geoff.
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