Re: CK Patent 6967448

CK's patent is just more barbed wire on the free range of ideas. I've heard that their most controversial patents have only been upheld in a Federal Court in the Boston region, where their attorneys have connections and the judges favor the home team. Why the USPTO can't recognize prior art in these applications is a real mystery. CK cites prior art then proceeds to claim their current invention is an advancement. CK's stockholders must be drinking the same Kool-Aid.

rgbphil wrote: 
Hi All,
If this is in the wrong group....just send me on my way with directions
please :)
From the news briefs at www.ledmagazine.com I saw a notice that CK has 
a new patent granted 25 October 2005....
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=/netahtml/srchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6967448.WKU.&OS=PN/6967448&RS=PN/6967448
Am I right in reading this, they've got a patent on flashing one of
their RGB lights to indicate that a pattern or parameter has been
changed?......ummm how is this patentable?
rgbphil

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