Reporting the state of an apparatus to a remote computer patented

Thu Aug 5 19:44:11 UTC 2004

* eddy+public+spam at noc.everquick.net (Edward B. Dreger) [Thu 05 Aug 2004, 19:28 CEST]:
[prior art]
> So why are Axeda and USPTO oblivious to all this?

The USPTO doesn't do due diligence research.  This is only a small part
of the reasons for the current patent mess, however.

Axeda has no interest in finding prior art, they have an interest in
people paying them money, preferably without having to go to court and
possibly face defeat when their emperor turns out to have not been in
full dress uniform after all.  That won't get the defending party back
the money they were forced to spend on the process of pointing that out,
however.

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	-- Niels.

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