Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 03:24 PM EDT |
It is my understanding that you can't patent anything that has ever been
published even if it was a work of fiction otherwise you could just read/view
anything and go *aha* I think I'll go get that patent and start raking in the
big bucks. Arthur C. Clark and Isaac Asimov closed off whole branches of patents
with their fiction alone. Pffft, fiction doesn't matter. Tell that to Microsoft
and Apple with the bogus patents! :)[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: HavingPun on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 03:25 PM EDT |
If an "invention" is described in a work of fiction, it can still be
considered
as published as far as i can tell. I remember this story about the
water bed and
it not being able to be patented: Geek Trivia: Strange (water)bedfellows. --- Have Pun, will
travel.
My spelling is not a strong suit. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 04:02 PM EDT |
Remember from the early years of homecomputing that everybody was looking busy
building it's own touch screen mechanism. Even with led's and photo-diode's.
I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that it is an invention to do the same on
modern touch-screens as has been done in that environment. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 04:24 PM EDT |
It's in the literature and practical implementations from at least 1965 onwards.
It was probably in use in the UK at least much earlier - Johnson was a Royal
Radar Research Establishment staffer. So his 1965 and other publications
permissions would have been after his bosses thought the stuff was then already
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Authored by: lnuss on Monday, October 22 2012 @ 05:00 PM EDT |
There was at least one bright green vector scope (not raster) that I encountered
at Bell Labs in the mid-1980s. I *think* it was made by Tektronik, but I'm not
certain of that. Unfortunately it's too many years ago for me to remember more
than that.
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Larry N.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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