On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:35:02 Adrian Midgley wrote:
>>I thought you will never ask! A big part of the answer is that I've
>always wanted to have a patent.
>
>Well, I think you achieved that. Whether it was anything like a new
>idea in 1998 is another matter.
Hi Adrian,
Yes, indeed. Now that it is out of the way, I am ready to move on to a more useful
pursuit :-).
Of course, another part of the fun is to find out whether it is indeed a new idea at
all. I have looked up and down and cannot find similar prior art. Maybe Dave Forslund
or someone else more knowledgeable will be able to dig up a relevant prior art???
The most important question is whether SDSS is an useful system and contributes to
better information management. Even if it turns out to be an old idea, I am pretty
confident that it is an _obscure_ old idea and has not been widely applied. This, I am
sure, even Dave will agree with.
Cheers,
Andrew
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Andrew P. Ho, M.D.
OIO: Open Infrastructure for Outcomes
www.TxOutcome.Org
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Psychiatry, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
University of California, Los Angeles
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