"Immortal computing" initiative by Microsoft

[Lyle Bickley]

On Tuesday 23 January 2007 09:23, Jim Isbell, W5JAI wrote:
> "Prior Art" has no standing anymore.  Its now, who gets there first
> with the patent.  Been that way for about 5 years now (maybe longer)
> when they changed the law.

Sorry, not true. A large portion of my business (and Sellam's) is based on the 
use of prior art in patent litigation suits. I love killing patents with 
prior art :-)

Lyle
KF6CGI

> On 1/23/07, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
> > On 23 Jan 2007 at 13:33, Tore Sinding Bekkedal wrote:
> > > I was lazily browsing the 'web when I came across this one - apparently
> > > a project to create a storage medium with extremely long life times.
> > >
> > > http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/300636_msftimmortal22.html
> >
> > Microsoft is trying to patent the gold-plated disc attached to
> > Voyager 30 years ago?  I hope they cite it as "prior art"!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Chuck

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Lyle Bickley
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Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com

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