But I saw it on Deep Space Nine, or Donald Duck already did it
A post on ArsTechnica begins:
Have you ever read a patent and thought, "I feel like I've seen that in a Star Trek episode?"
Well, this month the Electronic Frontier Foundation's patent sharpshooters have found a patent that quite literally had all of its key claim elements described by Star Trek—specifically, a 1998 episode of Deep Space Nine.
Earlier this week, EFF lawyer Vera Ranieri described the latest "Stupid Patent of the Month." US Patent No. 6,612,985 is a "method and system for monitoring and treating a patient" and is owned by My Health Inc. That company appears to be a non-practicing entity, and it has filed at least 30 lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas, a well-known patent troll haven.
link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/stupid-patent-and-trademark-of-the-month-remote-medical-diagnosis/
Merely fyi, from a 2009 post on IPBiz:
Innovation and invention, again
**Of a different "prior art" story, recall Donald Duck and carbene:
In 1963, in an article about Methylene published by Californian Institute, the Carbene element is explained in detail, with a note “Among experiments which have not, to our knowledge, been carried out as yet is one of a most intriguing nature suggested in the literature” referencing the Donald Duck comic. One year later , in another article, Carbene is explained a bit more in detail by a scientist named Greenwald. He refers to Donald Duck also
“ Let me say that carbenes can be made but not isolated; i.e. they cannot be put into a jar and kept on a shelf. They can, however, be made to react with other substances. Donald was using carbene in just such a manner, many years before 'real chemists' thought to do so.”
See also
http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-innovation-is-marketing-based.html
Have you ever read a patent and thought, "I feel like I've seen that in a Star Trek episode?"
Well, this month the Electronic Frontier Foundation's patent sharpshooters have found a patent that quite literally had all of its key claim elements described by Star Trek—specifically, a 1998 episode of Deep Space Nine.
Earlier this week, EFF lawyer Vera Ranieri described the latest "Stupid Patent of the Month." US Patent No. 6,612,985 is a "method and system for monitoring and treating a patient" and is owned by My Health Inc. That company appears to be a non-practicing entity, and it has filed at least 30 lawsuits in the Eastern District of Texas, a well-known patent troll haven.
link: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/06/stupid-patent-and-trademark-of-the-month-remote-medical-diagnosis/
Merely fyi, from a 2009 post on IPBiz:
Innovation and invention, again
**Of a different "prior art" story, recall Donald Duck and carbene:
In 1963, in an article about Methylene published by Californian Institute, the Carbene element is explained in detail, with a note “Among experiments which have not, to our knowledge, been carried out as yet is one of a most intriguing nature suggested in the literature” referencing the Donald Duck comic. One year later , in another article, Carbene is explained a bit more in detail by a scientist named Greenwald. He refers to Donald Duck also
“ Let me say that carbenes can be made but not isolated; i.e. they cannot be put into a jar and kept on a shelf. They can, however, be made to react with other substances. Donald was using carbene in just such a manner, many years before 'real chemists' thought to do so.”
See also
http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2010/07/when-innovation-is-marketing-based.html
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