Re: HTC patent application for Joerg's Y-cable?

2010-06-07 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2010-06-05, sob o godzinie 13:08 +0100, Al Johnson pisze: It hasn't been granted yet, and the Y-cable was around before it was filed, but perhaps not by long enough. [cut] Should we be afraid of this patent? Is it used in FR? -- Patryk LeadMan Benderz Linux Registered User #377521 ()

Re: HTC patent application for Joerg's Y-cable?

2010-06-07 Thread Jose Luis Perez Diez
A Dilluns 07 Juny 2010 12:34:31, Patryk Benderz va escriure: Dnia 2010-06-05, sob o godzinie 13:08 +0100, Al Johnson pisze: It hasn't been granted yet, and the Y-cable was around before it was filed, but perhaps not by long enough. [cut] Should we be afraid of this patent? Is it used in

Re: HTC patent application for Joerg's Y-cable?

2010-06-07 Thread Al Johnson
On Monday 07 June 2010, Jose Luis Perez Diez wrote: A Dilluns 07 Juny 2010 12:34:31, Patryk Benderz va escriure: Dnia 2010-06-05, sob o godzinie 13:08 +0100, Al Johnson pisze: It hasn't been granted yet, and the Y-cable was around before it was filed, but perhaps not by long enough.

Re: HTC patent application for Joerg's Y-cable?

2010-06-07 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Em 07-06-2010 16:00, Al Johnson escreveu: As Joerg says, I don't think it should be worthy of a patent. Unfortunately courts in the US have been progressively lowering the obviousness bar to the point where it's patentable unless someone has explicitly described it already before the

HTC patent application for Joerg's Y-cable?

2010-06-05 Thread Al Johnson
It hasn't been granted yet, and the Y-cable was around before it was filed, but perhaps not by long enough. http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph- Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PG01p=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmlr=1f=Gl=50s1=%2220100077121%22.PGNR.OS=DN/20100077121RS=DN/20100077121