ooops kid waking up -- prior art?
Mar. 18th, 2009 12:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitouthttp://g4tv.com/techtvvault/features/3121/NuvoMedia-RocketBook.html
How the hell is this not prior art?
ETA: Wondering whether this qualifies as prior art?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
Information qualifies -- it doesn't have to have been implemented, the way a patent application has to have at least a demonstration implementation. Patents are given for _nonobvious_ innovation. It's not like the RocketBook -- and reviews thereof that describe things like selling newspapers on them -- were somehow trade secret protected. And the date on the review is earlier than the date on the patent application.
The RocketBook included encryption/decryption, stuff potentially sold online through Amazon.com, downloaded to a home system then loaded onto the reader -- which sounds a lot like what the patent covers, the only exception being that the patent covers a business process for owning the whole stream (operations center + home system).
How the hell is this not prior art?
ETA: Wondering whether this qualifies as prior art?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
Information qualifies -- it doesn't have to have been implemented, the way a patent application has to have at least a demonstration implementation. Patents are given for _nonobvious_ innovation. It's not like the RocketBook -- and reviews thereof that describe things like selling newspapers on them -- were somehow trade secret protected. And the date on the review is earlier than the date on the patent application.
The RocketBook included encryption/decryption, stuff potentially sold online through Amazon.com, downloaded to a home system then loaded onto the reader -- which sounds a lot like what the patent covers, the only exception being that the patent covers a business process for owning the whole stream (operations center + home system).