Re: Announcement: Evolution based improvement of (at least web)images (A Patent Buster)

On Wed, 22 Jul 2009 17:03:24 -0700, ImageAnalyst wrote:

I'm not sure this would prevent any patents or establish prior art. It
might but I have doubts.

Interesting, and so is what wikipedia tells about "prior art"

"Prior art ... in most systems of patent law,[2] constitutes all
information that has been made available to the public in any form before
a given date that might be relevant to a patent's claims of originality.
If an invention has been described in prior art, a patent on that
invention is not valid."
..
..
..
"In order to anticipate a claim, prior art is generally expected to
provide a description sufficient to inform an average worker in the field
(or the person skilled in the art) of some subject matter falling within
the scope of the claim. Prior art must be available in some way to the
public,..."

That said, I am pretty sure that regulars readers of this newsgroup
(a.k.a persons skilled in the art) were provided "a sufficient
description" of the invention; even with live demos. And considering the
wikipedia's "If an invention has been described in prior art, a patent on
that invention is not valid." - sentence; well, I am pretty confident
that description could be counted effective and valid prior art.

In fact, maybe some of you know about that patent where
some guy patented imaging. He actually did get a patent
More absurd patents here: http://totallyabsurd.com/archive.htm

Thanks for the link. And speaking of absurd patents, well one Australian
guy successfully patented "a wheel" as a "circular transportation
facilitation device."

http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/07/02/australia.wheel/

Also I have have once applied for an absurd patent (a watch that (almost)
always shows a wrong time[*]) - and the patent office informed me they
would accept it as a patent (and just asked for some abstract-part
translations). Meanwhile, I had contacted watch manufacturers and found
that they were not 'enough' interested so I didn't pay and take the
patent.

Juuso
@ http://www.colordev.com

[*] trivia: What's could be the industrial usefullness in such?
.

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