My write up on patents

[Bill Morinville]

A bit of history. This is an inventors story. What happens when an idea is turned into a patent. Our founding fathers were insightful enough to include patents in our Constitution. It is important that intellectual property is protected. Please read the article.





http://beforeitsnews.com/libertarian/2013/12/legislation-to-kill-the-us-patent-system-2543158.html


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[Dennis Sosnoski]

Anyone who works in the business surely has experienced enough of the
crap that comes out of the patent system to know better than this. "Our
founding fathers" would have been appalled at what gets a patent now. Of
course, patents are *supposed* to be for non-obvious improvements to the
way things are done, but that long ago stopped being a real concern.

- Dennis

Post by Bill Morinville
A bit of history. This is an inventors story. What happens when an
idea is turned into a patent. Our founding fathers were insightful
enough to include patents in our Constitution. It is important that
intellectual property is protected. Please read the article.
http://beforeitsnews.com/libertarian/2013/12/legislation-to-kill-the-us-patent-system-2543158.html
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[Bill Morinville]

I worked for Fairchild Semiconductor in the 1960’s. that company was funded because of Robert Noyce etal patent of the planer process that made semiconductor as we know them, possible. That patent’s economic value gave Fairchild Camera and Instrument a reason to invest in a startup that was a major contribution to the semiconductor industry and which made the computers that we see today possible. When I worked there I was required to sign my rights to any invention I may develop to the company as most employees still do. I signed away my rights for a paycheck. I assume you do also. You probably suffer restrictions in your work but that does not mean that someone, an individual that has a better idea, should have his rights to his intellectual property invaded or stolen
 yes truly stolen by a company that has no conscience. This theft is rampant.

Frankly I feel it is unconscionable that companies require that employees sign such an agreement without equitable compensation for patentable ideas.



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Anyone who works in the business surely has experienced enough of the crap that comes out of the patent system to know better than this. "Our founding fathers" would have been appalled at what gets a patent now. Of course, patents are *supposed* to be for non-obvious improvements to the way things are done, but that long ago stopped being a real concern.

- Dennis


On 12/29/2013 06:19 PM, Bill Morinville wrote:



A bit of history. This is an inventors story. What happens when an idea is turned into a patent. Our founding fathers were insightful enough to include patents in our Constitution. It is important that intellectual property is protected. Please read the article.





http://beforeitsnews.com/libertarian/2013/12/legislation-to-kill-the-us-patent-system-2543158.html



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[Steve Lewis]

*Patent Nonsense*

I really could not make this up. I was in a discussion with an attorney
about some work I was doing using image recognition to automate reading
allergy skin tests. We were looking at a prior patent largely dealing with
a novel way of applying allergens. Their section on automation and image
recognition is reproduced in its entirety

*The image analyzer **116 may comprise a central processing unit (CPU) or
processor and a memory which are coupled together by a bus or other link,
although other numbers and types of components in other configurations and
other types of systems, such as an application specific integrated circuit
(ASIC) could be used. The processor may execute a program of stored
instructions for one or more aspects of the claimed invention, including
the method for determining a degree of reaction to one or more allergens as
described and illustrated herein. The memory stores these programmed
instructions for execution by the processor. A variety of different types
of memory storage devices, such as random access memory (RAM) or a read
only memory (ROM) in the system or a floppy disk, hard disk, CD ROM, or
other computer readable medium which is read from and/or written to by a
magnetic, optical, or other reading and/or writing system that is coupled
to the processor, can be used for the memory to store these programmed
instructions.*