[hpsdr] SDR Patent application that will kill hpsdr

[Robert McGwier]

It is sufficiently nonspecific in terms of "novel" to SDR, that it seems
like the rough equivalent of patenting air as a novel thing to aid
breathing.

Bob


On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 11:35 AM, Jeremy McDermond <mcdermj at xenotropic.com>wrote:

> On Aug 8, 2011, at 8:29 AM, Robert McGwier wrote:
>
> > ***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****
> >
> > You are right but we have a friendly attorney in our midst and we cannot
> let this guy patent OpenHPSDR ideas unchallenged.
>
> I guess I'm the unfriendly one.  That's what I get for being in criminal
> instead of patent law.
>
> My woefully inadequate understanding is, though, that the US patent system
> doesn't allow external input in the patent examination process other than
> for a two month period after the patent is published.  It was published in
> April according to USPTO so that time period has expired.
>
> The claims are very specific, though, and my understanding (again, woefully
> inadequate) is that the claims control what can be asserted, not the
> abstract.  The claims talk about a backplane with multiple "cores" on board,
> a power supply and even clocks.  This wouldn't necessarily apply to
> OpenHPSDR.  The patent, overall, doesn't seem particularly novel though.
>
> >
> > Bob
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > 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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