The man who invented the string trimmer was denied a patent because it was "obvious" to combine a small gas engine, some aluminum tube, a speedometer cable and some heavy fishing line into a device to cut weeds.
On Thu, 6/27/13, Bari <bari00...@gmail.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [Emc-users] Brain-Dead LinuxCNC G-Code Interface? To: emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Date: Thursday, June 27, 2013, 4:30 PM IANAL as well but the courts seemed to have changed the definition of "obvious". http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2013/01/the-federal-circuits-new-obviousness-jurisprudence-an-empirical-study.html If you look at these obvious patents you'll see that it doesn't even mean obvious to the layman or even a child. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/crazy.html This patent I believe was only filed to show how silly all this has actually become. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/6994809.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Windows: Build for Windows Store. http://p.sf.net/sfu/windows-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
