Le mercredi 25 octobre 2006 à 20:32 +0100, Hamish a écrit : > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:12, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > Vinicius Santos wrote: > > > http://hardware.slashdot.org/hardware/06/10/25/1226209.shtml > > > > > > It seems that patents can affect OGP more than I thought. > > > > This appears to be yet another example of a patent that should not have > > been granted. The basic claim is for a floating point frame buffer. > > Since the previous art is a integer frame buffer, integer numbers and > > IEEE floating point numbers, I can not see that this was sufficiently > > unobvious to a person familiar with these things. > > > > Are we taking bets on this? > > Yep. > > it's so blindingly obvious, I bet that SGI win. Is that cynical of me? > > IMO It's too obvious for it to have been granted in the first place. So I'd > guess it's because noone in authority actually understands it. If SGI feels > they have balls big enough to sue over it, I'm also betting that they think > whoever hears it will be blinded as well... > > But I"m hoping that SGI lose... It's a bad bad patent from what I can see of > it. Where's the invention in it? They didn't invent a framebuffer. They > didn't invent floating point. They took two existing concepts & glued them > together... Or am I missing something?
That seems obvious today, but may be not so obvious when this patent was filled. There's a bias with the concept of obviousness, as a matter of objectivity, this one is bound by the state of art which is all but an abstraction: the state of art is also the state of our everyday life. Tweaking two existing concepts is a thing, how they're tweaked is another one and there could reside the innovation. Does somebody here know the french philosopher Gilbert Simondon ? He has build a good model about the technical innovations. > _______________________________________________ > Open-graphics mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics > List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com) _______________________________________________ Open-graphics mailing list [email protected] http://lists.duskglow.com/mailman/listinfo/open-graphics List service provided by Duskglow Consulting, LLC (www.duskglow.com)
