On 6/25/2025 8:24 AM, MitchAlsup1 wrote:Should have mailed it "return receipt Request"On Wed, 25 Jun 2025 5:06:50 +0000, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:>
>On 6/24/2025 12:20 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:>Thomas Koenig <tkoenig@netcologne.de> writes:>Stephen Fuld <sfuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> schrieb:>
>That is all true. Patents are a lot weaker than most people think>
they
are. Essentially, they don't prevent anyone from copying anything.
Beg to differ there.
<snip general agreement with Thomas>
>>>Yes, the system is broken, but attempts to fix it have so far not been>
successful. :-(
There are things that are not OK, but I wouldn't say it is
completely broken.
"first to file" was a big step in the direction of broken as
it favors the institutional inventor over the solo inventors.
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It's good for the patent attorneys, sadly.
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Too Sarcastic? A shit load of people in the world can have a similar
idea that is good. Well, now. How many of those are going to file for a
patent, if any at all, per second of time on Earth? Humm... Not sure.
Ahh, those who write about it first in "public"? Humm... Any thoughts?
Back in my heyday of patent filings (1983-2000), every computer
architect
was reading the same academic and industrial literature, had access to
the
same fabrication technology, went to the same conferences,...--it is any
wonder why we reinvented each other's ideas ??
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In this period of time about 2/3rds of my filings were knocked down
by other filings of complete or near complete overlap.
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It is MY OPINION that if USPTO receives more than one patent covering
essentially the same idea at essentially the same period of time, that
this is prima-facia evidence that the idea is obvious to one skilled
in the art--so, nobody gets the patent.
I actually mailed one of my encryption algos to myself. Its still
unsealed. Fwiw,
here it is:
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http://fractallife247.com/test/hmac_cipher/ver_0_0_0_1?ct_hmac_cipher=cba71c0d266d16df7a9996bab499332e541728313a4ac8f429c552f8e56233fe4b1e124a81f9836a960d809ff477254cb3398179165be0105859882055dabc223feee98aabc5f7b88453233dc0e6b4b341ff22b22028e35e370a0e68
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