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Patent for what? Changing temperature of screen? That will not be granted because there are plenty of prior arts.
by btian 13y ago
Patent for what? Changing temperature of screen? That will not be granted because there are plenty of prior arts.
- TylerE 13y agoSuch as? Doing it automatically? This is, in my book, real innovation.
- TomaszZielinski 13y agoThere has to be more than merely an arbitrarily defined "innovation" to grant a patent, even in the US (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/part-II/chapter-10 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/part-II/chapter-10).
- TylerE 13y ago"Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process"
- eli 13y agoYou left off the rest of that sentence.
- TylerE 13y agoI didn't consider it relevant since it is ORed "Whoever invents or discovers any new and useful process, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter, or any new and useful improvement thereof, may obtain a patent therefor, subject to the conditions and requirements of this title."
- eli 13y agoYou misunderstand it. All of those things listed are "subject to the conditions and requirements of this title." The next few sections are about conditions and requirements. That's the important part.
- TylerE 13y ago...none of which would seem to apply. What's the prior art? It's defiantly non-obvious or someone would have done it decades ago - color screens have been around for a long time. If you were thinking of something else, I kindly ask you to make a point, instead of asking me to prove a negative.
- Already__Taken 13y agoYou're conflating non-obvious and not caring.
- wtallis 13y agoColor screens have been around a long time, but staring at them all day has only recently become common behavior. And the solution to a problem can be obvious even if the existence of the problem isn't obvious.
- kabouseng 13y agoIn broad terms for a patent to be granted an invention must be unique, innovative and non-obvious. I am not sure if f.lux is entirely non-obvious...
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoI would say that changing color temperature based on time of day (and location on the planet) as a means to reduce late-night eyestrain and fatigue is something non-obvious, yes. I never even thought about color temperature and the influence of it on your sleeping patterns (esp. late at night) until the guy behind f.lux came by.
- polymatter 13y agois it so non-obvious that it requires the state guarantee decades-long monopoly to ensure f.lux can make a return on the significant research & development costs? could we expect no more non-obvious apps like f.lux get made if the state doesn't guarantee decades-long monopoly?
- mdkess 13y agoYou've changed the question from "is the invention non-obvious, in the sense that current law requires to grand a patent?" to "do you agree with current patent laws and the value of patents?"
- intelliot 13y agointerestingly, f.lux is also free, at least for me. i use it yet haven't paid a dime. so it doesn't exactly look like they're trying to make a profit.. and i'm glad for that.
- sorbits 13y ago> […] changing color temperature based on time of day […] to reduce late-night eyestrain and fatigue is something non-obvious There are themes for text editors which have both a day and night version (and some users will without a doubt have setup cron to switch automatically). There are also blue-blocking filters recommended to wear at night for improving your sleep rhythm. Of course none of this means that the f.lux author can’t obtain a patent on something related to his software. The question is if it will hold up if later disputed.
- consonants 13y agoContextual color-temp changing is nothing new at all. Putting a GUI wrapper on it and publishing for two dominant consumer platforms is real innovation I guess.
- KC8ZKF 13y agoNot to mention wrapping the whole thing in pseudoscientific claptrap.
- deminature 13y agoBlue light's deleterious effect on sleep is well-established in scientific literature: http://justgetflux.com/research.html http://justgetflux.com/research.html
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- Gormo 13y agoF.lux is a very good program, but you'll note that the 'research' section of their own page indicates that they didn't come up with the concept itself, and once you understand that blue light exposure distorts circadian rhythms, this particular implementation becomes rather obvious.
- joshu 13y agoSo, do you think redshift would exist if they hadn't seen f.lux?
- sovande 13y agoExactly. Nocturne, for instance, from the guy behind QuickSilver, was doing the same before Flux. http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/ http://code.google.com/p/blacktree-nocturne/