03-10-2004, 01:24 AM
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brighthand: "Company Claims Patent on Wireless Roaming"
"For a long time, a Holy Grail of the mobile world was a way of allowing devices to roam seamlessly between different types of wireless networks. For example, a user could be driving in his car connected to a GSM/GPRS network for voice and data and, when he arrives at his office, be instantly handed off to a local Wi-Fi network, where his call is no longer counted against his mobile phone service and data access is much faster. A number of companies have been working on ways to make this happen for years and one of them, Calypso Wireless, came up with a method and obtained a patent on it..."
Patent here, patent there, stopping innovation without a care...
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03-10-2004, 01:32 AM
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Pupil
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Calypso Wireless is to wireless what SCO is to Linux.
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03-10-2004, 01:41 AM
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Originally Posted by twntaipan
Calypso Wireless is to wireless what SCO is to Linux.
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How true. Maybe I should patent driving a car, that way I can sue all the drivers everywhere.
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03-10-2004, 01:42 AM
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So many patents
We drown in a flood of them
Where's our common sense???!!!
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03-10-2004, 01:43 AM
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Originally Posted by T-Will
So many patents
We drown in the flood of them
Where's our common sense???!!!
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Nice! You just won yourself a Pocket PC Thoughts Micro Light (the NEW design) - email me your full name and shipping address. 
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03-10-2004, 01:55 AM
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:frusty:
It never seems to fail, everytime something useful happens in this industry someone comes along and says "hey I have a patent on that, pay me". I am not against protecting a legit patent but it would seem that the U.S. Patent Office is really run by untrained primates (as alluded too in another posting by our leader).
Do they not research patents before issuing them? And should a patent not be very specific in what it covers? I thought vagueness was a Legal area, but I guess it extends to other areas of govermental operation.
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03-10-2004, 01:57 AM
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Sage
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Originally Posted by T-Will
So many patents
We drown in a flood of them
Where's our common sense???!!!
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LOL... Very good... But as one forum member has in his signature. "The only problem with common sense is that it's not common!"
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03-10-2004, 02:08 AM
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Intellectual
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Originally Posted by Mitch D
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Originally Posted by T-Will
So many patents
We drown in a flood of them
Where's our common sense???!!!
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LOL... Very good... But as one forum member has in his signature. "The only problem with common sense is that it's not common!" |
Alas it's not nearly as common as people trying to profit from ludicrous patents. :roll:
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03-10-2004, 02:21 AM
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What I don't understand is companies (and people) get a patent on an idea, and then never make anything. Maybe they have a good idea thats just too early for the world to use yet.
Lets see DaVinci created teh airplane, the helicopter and many other things we have today but his ancestors aren't getting a fortune for them.
Its simple if you patent the product make the darn thing. If you can't sell it maybe it wasn't worth it to begin with.
Hey maybe I can get a patent for thinking ya know the first one to have an idea. 8O
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03-10-2004, 02:42 AM
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Originally Posted by PPCMD
What I don't understand is companies (and people) get a patent on an idea, and then never make anything. Maybe they have a good idea thats just too early for the world to use yet.
Lets see DaVinci created teh airplane, the helicopter and many other things we have today but his ancestors aren't getting a fortune for them.
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Yes, but even IF he had patented them, they only last 20 years anyway.
I agree that if there is no value to be had, why bother? However, if you had just invented something that could make you a tonne of cash, would you want to protect it? That is exactly what these guys are doing.
The problem is when companies (try to) protect stupid things - like the bloke in Australia who last year managed to patent a spherical transportation enabling mechanism (a wheel). What is even more stupid, is when the patent offices manage to somehow decide that there is something unique and new about these things (two of the criteria).
This particular patent (unless I'm mistaken) will be about protecting a certain method of doing this handover. It will not prohibit any other organizations from coming up with their own method, nor does it mean these guys will monopolize this particular technology space or inhibit innovation (in fact it should drive more innovation when others try to work around it). They still need to get the thing to the mass market - which is tremendously expensive. Not to mention that to get a worldwide patent they would have had to fork out more than $70k
We dont slam Jason for trying to make money out of what he has built up here, why should we slam these guys for building some cool technology and trying to protect it? Especially when we would want to do the same.
I say good on them and I look forward to buying a handset that will do nice handovers to wifi.
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