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by axman6 13y ago
The PCT relates mostly to claims for priority of patents, so if a document is files in say the US, the applicant may then later (within a specified time period) file an application in another PCT country and claim the same priority date as
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by axman6 13y ago
That's not at all how the prior art base of the USPTO, nor any other patent office, is defined. The problem is that these are the most easily searchable bases of prior art because their fields necessitate it: academics are required to
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by axman6 13y ago
Do you know how to read a patent document and assess the scope claimed? Because with a comment like that, it's pretty clear you don't. The scope is both quite clear and narrow/specific and most definitely could not apply to a
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by axman6 13y ago
No, because that's not paid per comment.
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This is not equivalent to a newspaper advertisment because a newspaper isn't online content (though it's close enough that an argument could be made on the inventive step ). However, there is definitely potential that this is nov
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by axman6 13y ago
Novelty requires proof through a single disclosue (read document) which discloses all the features of the claim. It is not, as with most things in the law, left up to a weak oppinion or a feeling of "Hmm, I'm sure someone must&#x2
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2. if something doesn't make sense in the claims, you can refer to the description for clarification of what the scope of terms encompass within their scope. Also, as an ademdum to 1., specifically read the independant claims (the ones
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by axman6 13y ago
The issue isn't the potentially infinite loop, it's the fact it creates an uneven distribution of values, giving 0 a 1/250 greater chance of being selected, and thus makes the results of the PRNG more predictable. The article
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That's a great answer, thanks for that!
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Is there anything wrong with that? If the Kenyan Shilling is as important as they describe in the article, then why should they have to be stuck with a second rate symbol using latin letters? Do you think the Euro should just use $ or EU$ o
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by axman6 13y ago
Why would that be any fun?
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The line is drawn where the invention stops being a part of the useful arts , and an algorithm on its own is not useful, but a system using a new algorithm is indeed useful, and that's where the distinction between algorithms and software
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So you've addressed maybe half the essential features of the claim, and that clearly makes all of it obvious? What about the rest? Is it obvious to do all these things in the way claimed? Do you have proof this it is obvious to do so? The
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by axman6 13y ago
Got a citation that has all the features of even the first claim? That's all that's needed. The patent doesn't claim a system which does analysis of natural language input, it claims a specific system for doing such. Again, find a citation
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by axman6 13y ago
But this isn't a broad patent, it's in fact very specific in its claims, and no one here has managed to provide anything that resembles prior art for this patent. You should stop making ridiculous claims without any proof or facts to back t
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by axman6 13y ago
My AI background is weak but not non-existant. But this is beside the point. I'm not the one making claims this is a junk patent and that it's clearly obvious. The ones who are have provided no proof that it is obvious. For a patent to be i
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Do you have any prior art? This is not a patent for "Artificial intelligence" in general, it's a patent for a very specific method of doing something that appears intelligent, and this is actually what artificial intelligence is all about.
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Do you even know what the study of AI is about? I even laid it out for you and yet you still bring up nonsense like references to Skynet? Just because they use a term artificial intelligence does not mean they're talking about the Hollywood
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The burden of proof is surely not on me (and what you ask is actually impossible); I'm refuting those who say that the invention defined by the claims is clearly obvious. This is something which is not impossible, all that is needed is
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by axman6 13y ago
But if that were the case, the patent would almost certainly be invalid; the claimed invention must be inventive, i.e. having come up with something that is not obvious. What is described is coming up with the obvious solution to a problem,
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"Software patents are utter garbage" " I certainly hope that this gibberish isn't taken to be sufficient details for someone to implement." "isn't this patent a little bit too reaching and isn't the logic a little bit too o
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by axman6 14y ago
The point made here is a very important one: those who are not trained routinely completely misunderstand what a patent is actually a) describing and b) actually claiming. It happens throughout the media on a daily basis, but is particularl
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How PatentlyApple Harms Patents – Including Apple’s(blog.patentology.com.au)
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by axman6 15y ago
Personally, I use FreeBSD for anything that's headless, and OS X is the only OS I'll touch for a desktop. FreeBSD makes for a fantastic, consistent experience for servers of all kinds, and OS X has everything I could want on a desktop. (I d
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by axman6 15y ago
Apple have always acknowledged whoever found any exploits in their OS. It may not be in the update docs, but it is in the security-announce mailing list Apple uses for all updates that have security fixes. https://lists.apple.com/mailman/l
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Do the developers of btrfs recommend using it in production yet? last I heard they didn't feel it wasn't complete or stable enough yet.
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Did anyone else find it somewhat ironic that that page looks terrible on wide screens, and is as such quite difficult to read? Columns are important, especially when your readers may be dyslexic (Like I am), narrower pieces of text are far
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by axman6 15y ago
I may be wrong, but I think that this is theoretically possible using LLVM. If you just translate the source into LLVM IR without any optimisation, then all of that can be left until runtime if necessary, which is pretty neat. Though I'm no
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I believe that's just a Class 0 SMS.
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Personally the implementation of nth_element is a much more interesting thing to see than just knowing it exists.

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