Kudos and congratulations! Cheers, Gene > On Jul 3, 2014, at 3:20 PM, "Steve Richfield via AGI" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > A year ago I posted my new patent application for a faster way of parsing NL > text. > > On July 22nd it will be granted as patent 8,788,263. > > This, in a world where technology patents often take a decade to obtain. The > secret here is to have at least one inventor who is at least 65 years old, > which causes the application to be "made special" and move to the top of the > USPTO's to-do list. > > You younger inventors should be looking for an older associate, so you can > generate patents that are worth something, BEFORE the technology has had time > to move on to something better. > > And, you others on this forum who are 65 or older: You have a special ability > to push patents through the USPTO that you should promote when looking for > new projects. > > EVERY project NEEDS one of us old farts, if they are ever to produce patented > technologies that are still worth something by the time the patent has > finally been granted. > > On a side note, ~20 years ago the IEEE conducted a survey of failed and > successful projects, to identify what it was different that made projects > successful. The thing that stood out most from the survey was the successful > projects almost always had an older engineer working in them in some capacity. > > We older engineers understand this, as we have all seen enough successes and > failures to "smell" an impending failure long before it becomes obvious to > others, and we can explain what is going wrong long before the project hits a > dead end. EVERY project encounters points of failure. Successful projects > recognize these points and take timely action to avoid them. > > Steve > > AGI | Archives | Modify Your Subscription
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