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What's the point here? Is this a demonstration of prior art? Or is it just demonstrating that a patent's technology is easily re-implemented? Because if it's
by tunesmith 13y ago
What's the point here? Is this a demonstration of prior art? Or is it just demonstrating that a patent's technology is easily re-implemented?
Because if it's the latter, that doesn't really prove anything. Patents are to protect technologies/inventions that are far easier to produce after invention than before. That's the good part of a patent, when the patent system works as designed.
If it's a demonstration of prior art though, that's pretty cool - it might help to make it more obvious, though.
- kainosnoema 13y agoIt's neither prior art (though it was started prior to the recent patent publicity), nor a re-implementation (as stated in the readme, it's just a wrapper around OS X's NSLinguisticTagger). Why can't it just be a useful tool? I'm looking forward to using it while writing project documentation and will be working on editor plugins using the JSON formatted output (https://github.com/stephencelis/syn/commit/d2d36473f7295c6cfb220f4e322c6b7b2ca798fe https://github.com/stephencelis/syn/commit/d2d36473f7295c6cf...).
- Estragon 13y agoIt's an invitation to IA to dig themselves a deeper hole. :-)
- coldtea 13y ago>What's the point here? Is this a demonstration of prior art? Or is it just demonstrating that a patent's technology is easily re-implemented? No patent. iA took that back. One wasn't possible anyway -- not only this is 90% Apple's API, but even the UI implementation of this particular feature was already shown by Apple in WWDC 2011.