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Neat. The landing page has some examples: http://allpriorart.com/ http://allpriorart.com/ I don't think this is intended to actually create prior art that coul
by paulgb 11y ago
Neat. The landing page has some examples: http://allpriorart.com/ http://allpriorart.com/
I don't think this is intended to actually create prior art that could be used in a patent dispute, but as an art project it's well-executed.
- timthelion 11y agoWhy couldn't this be used in court?
- charlieegan3 11y agoI guess because they don't really make sense. "Provided is a system and program for automatically handling an error when retrieving a file for an application. The structure comprises a seat element which has a top surface, designed to at least partly contact a user, and a support element underlying the seat element and designed to be connected to the movable or stationary frame."
- manmal 11y agoI thought that each sentence comprises the equivalent of a patent.
- PatentTroll 11y agoYou're thinking about claims, here prior art is just public knowledge that doesn't have to be in any particular format
- timthelion 11y agoLooking at the examples, I notice that they are all rather long. I have often thought about the idea of algoritmically creating prior art, but simply by joining pairs of words. For example: Vibrating motor+keyboard, vibrating motor+screen, vibrating motor+mouse, vibrating motor+stylus... To prevent patents like this one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_v._Sony
- theoh 11y agoThis is an older and more succinct implementation of that kind of idea: http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi http://thesurrealist.co.uk/priorart.cgi
- taneq 11y agoSo something to exhaustively generate trivial ideas in order to prevent companies patenting things like "one+click+purchase"? I have a feeling it would get a response of "that doesn't count" but I don't know how they'd back that up.