crazy patent
lang...@fonz.dk
Jim Granville
Patents often clearly fail many of the thresholds they are supposed to
pass, in part because the filing lawyers are motivated by the payment
and act of creating a patent. It is not helped either, that most
lawyers have no idea, or experience, of the item-field.
A patent is merely a license to litigate,
-jg
David Brown
That is almost an exact description of the system used on Altera's NIOS
development kits - and probably thousands of other designs.
henk
> That is almost an exact description of the system used on Altera's NIOS
> development kits - and probably thousands of other designs.
Also see:
http://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/xapp079.pdf
(July 2000)
glen herrmannsfeldt
> lang...@fonz.dk wrote:
>> http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210201176&cid=NL_eet
>> http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7391237/description.html
> Patents often clearly fail many of the thresholds they are supposed to
> pass, in part because the filing lawyers are motivated by the payment
> and act of creating a patent. It is not helped either, that most
> lawyers have no idea, or experience, of the item-field.
> A patent is merely a license to litigate,
It sounds somewhat like what motherboard designers with
flash upgrade must also do, though the details will be
different in each case.
It seems likely that the patent makes sense for some
particular case, but was written and approved more generally
than it should have been.
-- glen