Thus spake "Origami on behalf of Matthew Gardiner"
<[email protected] on behalf of [email protected]> on
2/13/19, 10:07 PM:
Can anyone shed some light on this?
How can write a patent including the a plain waterbomb pattern with no
publication citations?
Actually, there are citations of both publications and patents. But they're
pretty thin.
If you design it, yes, of course, but there are so many examples of prior
art in academic literature as well… looks like one can file for any origami
pattern they like.
See Figure 18… also Figure 11. Wow, one only needs to look at Fuse’s Spiral
book for prior art.
https://jiangmeiwu.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Final_Published_Patent_JiangmeiWu.pdf
You can say pretty much anything you want in the disclosure and spec, but what
matters is the claims. And these claims are pretty narrow! For one thing, they
only apply to a light cover, and in claim 1 there's a requirement that the
score lines be "digitally created", which would make it pretty easy to
circumvent. But I would agree with Tomohiro, that in any sort of legal dispute,
it would likely be found invalid due to lack of novelty over non-disclosed
prior art. (This opinion brought to you by "I am not a patent lawyer, but I
spent lots of time with them going over this sort of thing in a prior life.")
does anyone know the inventor?
Yes, she's one of the artists in the "Above the Fold" traveling exhibition. Her
work is a gigantic cardboard Yoshimura pattern, which is pretty cool (you can
walk inside it).
Robert
