[hpsdr] SDR Patent application that will kill hpsdr

[Robert McGwier]

You are right but we have a friendly attorney in our midst and we cannot let this guy patent OpenHPSDR ideas unchallenged.

Bob


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On Aug 8, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Chris Smith <chris at vspl.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi Bob
> 
> I suspect that the patent application can be negated by "prior art". i.e. HPSDR's backplane for that purpose has already been published and is already in the public domain.    See   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior_art
> 
> But then I'm not a patent attorney. :-)
> 
> Cheers & 73
> 
> Chris G4NUX
> 
> 
> On 8 Aug 2011, at 15:40, Robert McGwier wrote:
> 
>> ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
>> 
>> This group had better respond and very negatively to this as soon as possible.  John, I am thinking of you.
>> 
>> Tao Wang has patent application 12/900803   for a backplane with boards in it that might include an LCD display for the purposes of SDR transmit and receive.  This is just above Phil Karn's cat exerciser patent (waving a laser pointer on the floor in front of a cat).  He is from Germantown Maryland. It was filed in April.
>> 
>> 
>> Bob
>> N4HY
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bob McGwier
>> ARS: N4HY
>> 
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