[SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to protect inventiveness

2009-11-11 Thread Mark Burch
Dang! :) Regards, Mark Burch From: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com [mailto:silicon-beach-austra...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Sriram Panyam Sent: Thursday, 12 November 2009 11:45 AM To: silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com Subject: [SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to prot

[SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to protect inventiveness

2009-11-11 Thread Dylan Jay
my understanding of the process is that the lawyer will be craftily turn your specific invention to make it has general and as widely applicable as possible with infringing other patents (and sometimes even that general). In this way your patent goes from being something valuable for prote

[SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to protect inventiveness

2009-11-11 Thread Sriram Panyam
Prior art Mark!!! http://www.patentsincommerce.com/PatentWizard.htm :D On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Mark Burch wrote: > > You said: "the problem with drafting a patent is that you need to devote > considerable time to it to get a document that is worth submitting." I > suppose 5 years ag

[SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to protect inventiveness

2009-11-11 Thread Mark Burch
You said: "the problem with drafting a patent is that you need to devote considerable time to it to get a document that is worth submitting." I suppose 5 years ago everybody thought that amicable divorce settlements needed to be drafted by a high cost lawyer in a suit and tie. According to tha

[SiliconBeach] Microsoft is the most inventive company in the world!

2009-11-11 Thread Sriram Panyam
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2009094923390 They just patented the "sudo"!! cheers Sri -- Blog: http://panyam.wordpress.com Twitter: @panyam --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia

[SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to protect inventiveness

2009-11-11 Thread 1_Place
Hi Chris There are a lot of examples of poor patents. IP Australia's current mission includes concentrating on quality. Have a look at the current review on Patentable Subject Matter at http://www.acip.gov.au/reviews.html#subject As for the issue of inventive step ("non-obvious") it is current

[SiliconBeach] Re: New business models to protect inventiveness

2009-11-11 Thread 1_Place
Hi Mark Your Wired reference has been on our minds: the problem with drafting a patent is that you need to devote considerable time to it to get a document that is worth submitting. This is one of the main reasons why the majority of patent firms only concentrate on the big end of town, since ty

[SiliconBeach] Re: Is Australia a viable market?

2009-11-11 Thread Niki Scevak
Just a point of clarification: Atlassian's customers were never in Australia and never made up more than a miniscule percentage. There is no reason why you can't be in Australia and sell to overseas customers but targeting Australian customers would need a huge mainstream need (e.g. Accounting) ot

[SiliconBeach] Re: Global Entrepreneurship Week Calendar (Next Week)

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan Cross
Sorry for spamming again New link for the shared google calendar: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=iddk90hq8qfegc4341lcg6gm3c2hf6bs%40import.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney Please continue to use the direct link to the feed if you're subscribing: http://ryancross.com/globa

[SiliconBeach] Re: Global Entrepreneurship Week Calendar (Next Week)

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan Cross
I've improved the script and posted it online as a proper feed. The tech calendar will need to be updated properly Please use http://ryancross.com/globalentrepreneurshipweek/feed_ical.php to subscribe. Cheers, Ryan On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Zara Choy (Personal) wrote: > Hey Ryan, > > T

[SiliconBeach] Global Entrepreneurship Week Calendar (Next Week)

2009-11-11 Thread Ryan Cross
Hey Guys, I spent a little time tonight parsing the events calendar on the site home page and imported it into google calendar here: http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=p70gni37pejeau2j70v16ru4e8%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Australia/Sydney You can also import it from the ical source h