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This article misses one thing: MS didn't develop this part of the tech, PrimeSense did. You can see their stuff at http://www.primesense.com/?p=487 http://www.
by daeken 15y ago
This article misses one thing: MS didn't develop this part of the tech, PrimeSense did. You can see their stuff at http://www.primesense.com/?p=487 http://www.primesense.com/?p=487
MS built the software that actually made sense of the data, but PrimeSense is who developed and built the technology that's in question here.
- ig1 15y agoPrecisely, unless he can show the PrimeSense guys based their technology upon his then they can use a clean-room defence to get the patent invalidated.
- esrauch 15y agoIANAL but I don't think that is how patents work. If person A patents his invention, and person B completely independently invents exactly the same invention without having any knowledge about person A's work, person B still cannot just ignore the patent.
- ig1 15y agoNo, but B can use the fact that they independently invented it to show that the idea failed to meet the innovation criteria of patents and that what the patents covers is in fact an obvious derivative from existing ideas and get the patent invalidated on that basis.
- pedalpete 15y agoThe PrimeSense patents I found were filed in January of 2008, Hei-D patents weren't filed until March of 2009. It looks like PrimeSense had the technology first.