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> combination of the manufacturer, make and serial number. > patent that involves defining that as a unique identifier for aircraft. Now i got mighty curious
by Too 1y ago
> combination of the manufacturer, make and serial number.
> patent that involves defining that as a unique identifier for aircraft.
Now i got mighty curious what makes this novel enough to be a patent.
- jajko 1y agoMaybe its right-click level of patent.
- tux3 1y agoYou burrow this simple idea in pages and pages of obfuscated tedium, and that's good enough that everyone is happy. Patent office gets their fee, lawyers get paid, company can say it has a supercharged patented innovation.
- amelius 1y agoIt's a unique identifier but now "not on a computer".
- Tostino 1y agoI was wondering the same thing. I've had to derive unique identifiers from hundreds of different data sets over the years. What makes it special when it's a plane?
- brewdad 1y ago>> it’s on a plane. Exactly this. The domain space and a couple of good lawyers makes it patentable today.
- dmd 1y agoGo work at a big company. The patent lawyers come around and ask what you've been working on, and a month or two later, your name's on 10 patents, none of which make any sense whatsoever. If you're very lucky you might get a dollar bill for each.
- sixdimensional 1y ago[flagged]
- dekhn 1y agoFor a while at google you would get $5k per patent submission and $10k for each approved(?) one. Given how easy it was, I could have matched my annual salary. It's depressing how easy it is to get a system architecture (unimplemented) patented at bigco.
- marssaxman 1y agoWhen I was at Microsoft, years ago, it took more effort to avoid having my name end up on a patent than I'd have had to exert if I'd actually wanted one.