From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Decoding an octet stream
Date: 1999/12/02
Date: 1999-12-02T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1999Dec2.081944.1@eisner> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 825g04$qri$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net
In article <825g04$qri$1@nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>, swhalen@netcom.com writes:
> Part of the problem is that it doesn't matter that _I_ know that this
> is prior art and/or obvious. Only if I was sued by the patent holder
> (or some other way got myself into court with lawyers and the whole
> bit), would I have "standing" to _force_ the Patent Office to "listen"
> to why I thought this particular application was obvious / prior art
> ...
But when you do get called into court you merely have to prove there
is prior art, not that the prior art you cite is the exact prior art
you considered when you used the technique.
I recall a newspaper ad searching for something like "prior art"
regarding a lawsuit over the song "Let's Go" by the Routers. The
lawyers in question were looking for people who knew of a certain
rhythmic hand-clap and song being used by cheerleaders before year
X, where the rhythm was:
. . ... .... oo
and the cogniscenti will recognize that the dots above are handclaps
whereas the "oo" in the recorded version are the words "let's go",
and the "prior art" in this copyright case might presumably use
the name of a team or some other slogan for the "oo".
Since then, Al Gore has invented the Internet, so asking others for
evidence of prior art is cheaper than placing newspaper ads.
Larry Kilgallen
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Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-11-28 0:00 Decoding an octet stream Florian Weimer
1999-11-29 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-11-30 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` David C. Hoos, Sr.
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
1999-12-01 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Stupid patent tricks (was: Decoding an octet stream) Ted Dennison
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Kenneth Almquist
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-02 0:00 ` tmoran
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Lutz Donnerhacke
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-02 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-02 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen [this message]
1999-12-03 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-03 0:00 ` swhalen
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Richard D Riehle
1999-12-06 0:00 ` Ed Falis
1999-12-07 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Brian Rogoff
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Numeric types Mario Amado Alves
1999-12-08 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Decoding an octet stream Robert Dewar
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Geoff Bull
1999-12-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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