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Hyper-light speed antenna (#6025810)
Re Roy's post:
One of my favorites is U.S. patent #6,025,810, "Hyper-Light_Speed Antenna" (Strom). Besides sending the signal at a speed faster than light and penetrating known RF shielding devices, a side benefit is that it can be used to accelerate plant growth. I've read many patents which are as fundamentally flawed, but this one has the advantage of being so obviously wacko that nearly anyone but the overly credulous can see from it just how little a patent really means as an indication of technical merit. Roy Lewallen, W7EL --- I am convinced that this application was intentionally filed to point up the bogosity(?) of the system. It was the claim for improving plant growth that convinced me. In general, I agree with your contention that patents are granted unless there's some clear problem (perpetual motion), with the idea that they'll let the would-be infringer fight it out to invalidate it. The PTO is full of good people, but grossly underfunded, and without sufficient institutional gumption to try and fight the tide of patents for the unpatentable and obvious. Jim, W6RMK |
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Hyper-light speed antenna (#6025810)
"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message .. . Dear Jim (W6RMK): I have just returned from a conference where two of the speakers were senior officials of the USPTO. Among other things, they made clear that a large effort is being made to reduce what the PTO calls "errors." These measures include allowed applications being scrutinized by someone other than the examiner before being issued as a patent. While the backlog of applications increases, the fraction of examined applications that end up being issued as patents has precipitously decreased in the last few years. About 1200 new examiners are being hired each FY with a total of somewhat over 5000 examiners. Obviously, the turnover is large with over 20% of the examiner corps being replaced each year. In short, the USPTO has many of what they call "challenges," but they are trying to manage the challenges. That includes implementing means for reducing "errors." Every time an "error" is patented, it seems to make it more difficult to secure a legitimate patent. Your contention that the error rate is large is not supported by facts. With a vigorous review process, in the last FY only 3.5% of approved applications were deemed to be "errors" and did not pass to issue. I am confident that the number of errors that managed to slip by is small indeed. All that said, the USPTO is considering having interested parties comment by the internet during the prosecution of applications. This might start with applications in business-methods and computer related applications. This scheme would allow knowledgeable persons in the art to tell the PTO well in advance of allowance that the art in the application is old because of such and such. Other similar schemes are being considered. We all realize that the Republic's balance of payments is kept from being catastrophic because of the export of intellectual property. The process needs improvement. It is being improved. Really bad patents are becoming rare. Warm regards, Mac N8TT -- J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A. Home: wrote in message I am convinced that this application was intentionally filed to point up the bogosity(?) of the system. It was the claim for improving plant growth that convinced me. In general, I agree with your contention that patents are granted unless there's some clear problem (perpetual motion), with the idea that they'll let the would-be infringer fight it out to invalidate it. The PTO is full of good people, but grossly underfunded, and without sufficient institutional gumption to try and fight the tide of patents for the unpatentable and obvious. Jim, W6RMK While the overall percentage of errors is quite small even 1% or .01% would still be a lot.Certainly enough to realise that one can not validate the worthiness of on ides on the basis that it is patented. |
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Dear Jim (W6RMK): I have just returned from a conference where two of the
speakers were senior officials of the USPTO. Among other things, they made clear that a large effort is being made to reduce what the PTO calls "errors." These measures include allowed applications being scrutinized by someone other than the examiner before being issued as a patent. While the backlog of applications increases, the fraction of examined applications that end up being issued as patents has precipitously decreased in the last few years. About 1200 new examiners are being hired each FY with a total of somewhat over 5000 examiners. Obviously, the turnover is large with over 20% of the examiner corps being replaced each year. In short, the USPTO has many of what they call "challenges," but they are trying to manage the challenges. That includes implementing means for reducing "errors." Every time an "error" is patented, it seems to make it more difficult to secure a legitimate patent. Your contention that the error rate is large is not supported by facts. With a vigorous review process, in the last FY only 3.5% of approved applications were deemed to be "errors" and did not pass to issue. I am confident that the number of errors that managed to slip by is small indeed. All that said, the USPTO is considering having interested parties comment by the internet during the prosecution of applications. This might start with applications in business-methods and computer related applications. This scheme would allow knowledgeable persons in the art to tell the PTO well in advance of allowance that the art in the application is old because of such and such. Other similar schemes are being considered. We all realize that the Republic's balance of payments is kept from being catastrophic because of the export of intellectual property. The process needs improvement. It is being improved. Really bad patents are becoming rare. Warm regards, Mac N8TT -- J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A. Home: wrote in message I am convinced that this application was intentionally filed to point up the bogosity(?) of the system. It was the claim for improving plant growth that convinced me. In general, I agree with your contention that patents are granted unless there's some clear problem (perpetual motion), with the idea that they'll let the would-be infringer fight it out to invalidate it. The PTO is full of good people, but grossly underfunded, and without sufficient institutional gumption to try and fight the tide of patents for the unpatentable and obvious. Jim, W6RMK |
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Hyper-light speed antenna (#6025810)
On 19 Mar, 19:18, "Jimmie D" wrote:
"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in messagenews:9_GdnbWhyMebpWLYnZ2dnUVZ_smonZ2d@brigh t.net... Dear Jim (W6RMK): I have just returned from a conference where two of the speakers were senior officials of the USPTO. Among other things, they made clear that a large effort is being made to reduce what the PTO calls "errors." These measures include allowed applications being scrutinized by someone other than the examiner before being issued as a patent. While the backlog of applications increases, the fraction of examined applications that end up being issued as patents has precipitously decreased in the last few years. About 1200 new examiners are being hired each FY with a total of somewhat over 5000 examiners. Obviously, the turnover is large with over 20% of the examiner corps being replaced each year. In short, the USPTO has many of what they call "challenges," but they are trying to manage the challenges. That includes implementing means for reducing "errors." Every time an "error" is patented, it seems to make it more difficult to secure a legitimate patent. Your contention that the error rate is large is not supported by facts. With a vigorous review process, in the last FY only 3.5% of approved applications were deemed to be "errors" and did not pass to issue. I am confident that the number of errors that managed to slip by is small indeed. All that said, the USPTO is considering having interested parties comment by the internet during the prosecution of applications. This might start with applications in business-methods and computer related applications. This scheme would allow knowledgeable persons in the art to tell the PTO well in advance of allowance that the art in the application is old because of such and such. Other similar schemes are being considered. We all realize that the Republic's balance of payments is kept from being catastrophic because of the export of intellectual property. The process needs improvement. It is being improved. Really bad patents are becoming rare. Warm regards, Mac N8TT -- J. Mc Laughlin; Michigan U.S.A. Home: wrote in message I am convinced that this application was intentionally filed to point up the bogosity(?) of the system. It was the claim for improving plant growth that convinced me. In general, I agree with your contention that patents are granted unless there's some clear problem (perpetual motion), with the idea that they'll let the would-be infringer fight it out to invalidate it. The PTO is full of good people, but grossly underfunded, and without sufficient institutional gumption to try and fight the tide of patents for the unpatentable and obvious. Jim, W6RMK While the overall percentage of errors is quite small even 1% or .01% would still be a lot.Certainly enough to realise that one can not validate the worthiness of on ides on the basis that it is patented.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Jimmie, the patent office is not interested in worthiness, it is interested in providing a service and protection in exchange for findings to be printed for the advance of science. Obviously they are not going to waste time on perpetual motion and at the same time they would not invalidate an invention of earmuffs as being trivial since 1/2 million were sold the first year of production. Now that patent offices in different countries have joined together in a loose sort of way changes have been made with respect to dormant patents with claims of an idea without acknoweledgment as to how the idea would come to fruition. Also if a claim was sufficiently fague the patent holder has to show that he was taking advantage of his claim i.e. manufacturing facilities. The PTO have now documented all patents on a computor such that prominent adjectives and processes in a new request can be compared to prior patents with the same words quite easily which allows the PTO to ask for more intimate detailsfrom the applicant as to why his should be allowednow knowing of existing patents.So Jimmie to summarize the PTO is offering protection as a service such that the divuljence of the application will further the advance of science, so yes some patents will be considered useless in the eyes of some yet in the eyes of an entranapour it can be the source of riches. In terms of true science advances are made in little steps and not by a significant myrical thus it is important that each step be publicised until the ultimate is reached on behalf of the nation. The patent office by the way is a cash cow in that it generates more revenue that it costs to operate i.e a patent cost money by all aplicants which is why Crystal city is so influent with high cost buildings but at the same time the Government has control of the PTO and thus removes cash returns each year from the PTO for cancelling other government losses. Art |
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Hyper-light speed antenna (#6025810)
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 22:18:00 -0400, Jimmie D wrote:
"J. Mc Laughlin" wrote in message .. . Dear Jim (W6RMK): I have just returned from a conference where two of the speakers were senior officials of the USPTO. Among other things, they made clear that a large effort is being made to reduce what the PTO calls "errors." These measures include allowed applications being scrutinized by someone other than the examiner before being issued as a patent. While the backlog of applications increases, the fraction of examined applications that end up being issued as patents has precipitously decreased in the last few years. About 1200 new examiners are being hired each FY with a total of somewhat over 5000 examiners. Obviously, the turnover is large with over 20% of the examiner corps being replaced each year. In short, the USPTO has many of what they call "challenges," but they are trying to manage the challenges. That includes implementing means for reducing "errors." Every time an "error" is patented, it seems to make it more difficult to secure a legitimate patent. Your contention that the error rate is large is not supported by facts. With a vigorous review process, in the last FY only 3.5% of approved applications were deemed to be "errors" and did not pass to issue. I am confident that the number of errors that managed to slip by is small indeed. All that said, the USPTO is considering having interested parties comment by the internet during the prosecution of applications. This might start with applications in business-methods and computer related applications. This scheme would allow knowledgeable persons in the art to tell the PTO well in advance of allowance that the art in the application is old because of such and such. Other similar schemes are being considered. We all realize that the Republic's balance of payments is kept from being catastrophic because of the export of intellectual property. The process needs improvement. It is being improved. Really bad patents are becoming rare. jimlux wrote in message I am convinced that this application was intentionally filed to point up the bogosity(?) of the system. It was the claim for improving plant growth that convinced me. In general, I agree with your contention that patents are granted unless there's some clear problem (perpetual motion), with the idea that they'll let the would-be infringer fight it out to invalidate it. The PTO is full of good people, but grossly underfunded, and without sufficient institutional gumption to try and fight the tide of patents for the unpatentable and obvious. While the overall percentage of errors is quite small even 1% or .01% would still be a lot.Certainly enough to realise that one can not validate the worthiness of on ides on the basis that it is patented. Especially if that one idea does not pass The Straight Face Test. Jonesy -- Marvin L Jones | jonz | W3DHJ | linux 38.24N 104.55W | @ config.com | Jonesy | OS/2 *** Killfiling google posts: http://jonz.net/ng.htm |
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