On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 1:18 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes <[email protected]> wrote: > What most people don't understand, and I think the source of your > concern, is that the action or artifact itself is not what is patented > (in most cases, a design patent DOES patent the artifact), but what it's > used for. > > So, waving isn't patentable, but using a wave in the view of a three > dimensional sensing array to control a virtual object probably is. Hollywood popularized that idea (confer, Minority Report). Perhaps the author of he book can claim prior art.
Jeff >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >> On Behalf Of Rob, grandpa of Ryan, Trevor, Devon & Hannah >> Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 2:31 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: [funsec] Waving is patentable? >> >> http://bbc.in/sM8kpG >> >> >> ====================== (quote inserted randomly by Pegasus Mailer) >> [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] >> The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away >> from you. - B. B. King >> victoria.tc.ca/techrev/rms.htm http://www.infosecbc.org/links >> http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/author/p1/ >> http://twitter.com/rslade >> _______________________________________________ >> Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. >> https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec >> Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > > _______________________________________________ > Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. > https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec > Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list. > _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
