Re: perceptol formula?


"Helge Nareid" <hn.v06@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:e2np84l4uiphae92att5bujhktuec4483n@xxxxxxxxxx
On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 07:04:47 -0700, "Richard Knoppow"
<dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, first of all I am searching to satisfy my
curiousity. Secondly, most of the patents I look at are
very
old, long expired, and not useful for anyone trying to
guess
what new, novel, and useful things I am inventing. I doubt
if anyone doing serious patent searches for the purpose of,
say, finding out if something is prior art, would use
Google
and one can not use the USPTO site for that except for a
fee: the free searching has a limit.

Well, there are a few good search engines for searching
patents. Given
international patent law, patent applications have to be
made public
after a set period (normally 18 months). The best site for
patent
searches I've found to date is

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/

By the way, have a look at their frivolous patent page

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/crazy.html

Anybody who has ever amused a cat using a laser pointer or
even
thrown a stick for a dog should be afraid - very afraid ...
;-)

- The Horrible Helge
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- Helge Nareid
Nordmann i utlendighet, Aberdeen, Scotland
For e-mail, please refer to my website.
Website: http://www.nareid-web.me.uk/

Its good to hear from you Helge and to know that you
still follow this group. Google Patents works only for US
patents. I will try the link you gave for others. Most of
the patents I look for are for historical research, the
sites I've tried for European and English patents do not go
back far enough.
At one time there was a patents column in the _Journal
of the Audio Engineering Society_ where the reviewer often
pointed up some frivolous patents. It is quite surprizing
what can get by the patent examiners. For a long time, and
maybe still, there was a racket in nuicance law suits
against large companies for patent infringment. May
companies chose to simply buy off the plaintiff since it was
cheaper than defending the case in court even if the case
had no merit.
Learning to read patentese is necessary since the
stilted legal language of patents is often very confusing.
Of course, patents are _legal_ not technical or scientific
documents and are often writen to be somewhat indefinite.
Kodak's patents are generally well written and explicit and
are very often useful to read. Its evident from them that
they possessed a lot more technology than they seem to have
applied although its very hard sometimes to know which
patents have been used commercially and which were applied
for on the general principle of patenting any patentable
development of a research facility.
Another example is the patents cited by Harry Olson,
RCA's top acoustic researcher, in his writings, all are
necessary to look up because a lot of "secrets" are in them.


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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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