On Sat, 17 Apr 2010 23:33:48 +0100, you wrote:
I think in all fairness to examiners that in a way they have an
impossible job due to the fact that what is a clever idea to one
programmer will be a trivial idea to another: the field is so huge and
people have such different experiences.
In US
When it comes to patents, there is less than meets the eye.
A review of Intellectual Property in New Zealand a few years
ago found that the NZ Intellectual Property Office quite
deliberately do not review patent applications for originality.
An IP law expert I spoke to about this felt that there
revealed a link to a US Patent (7120900) for the idea of implementing
the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9) in Haskell, making use, as far as I
can tell, of nothing more than the normal approach any functional
programmer would use, namely separation
jerzy.karczmarc...@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
Brian Hulley reports a search similar to :
haskell unicode bidirectional
Comment irrelevant to Haskell, sorry.
Everybody does his/her various jobs. But I lost all respect due to people
who work in the US Patent Office, when I saw the patent
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Brian Hulley wrote:
see the patent 6,368,227. The search site is here:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm
Best regards.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
...
It's really almost not fair to cite that particular patent, since, if I
recall the story correctly (I may be
On Fri, 16 Apr 2010, jerzy.karczmarc...@info.unicaen.fr wrote:
Somebody finally decided to ridiculise the system. If you want a good laugh,
see the patent 6,368,227. The search site is here:
As I recall some (patent?) laywer was simply teaching his kid how the
patent process worked, so the
Murray Gross wrote:
On Sat, 17 Apr 2010, Brian Hulley wrote:
see the patent 6,368,227. The search site is here:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm
Best regards.
Jerzy Karczmarczuk
...
It's really almost not fair to cite that particular patent, since, if I
recall the story
Brian Hulley reports a search similar to :
haskell unicode bidirectional
revealed a link to a US Patent (7120900) for the idea of implementing the
Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9) in Haskell, making use, as far as I
can tell, of nothing more
