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Re: [ontolog-forum] Siri's (Apple) Patent Application

To: "'[ontolog-forum] '" <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <edbark@xxxxxxxx>
From: "Rich Cooper" <rich@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:04:27 -0700
Message-id: <20119B478F9849AEBB0C4CB2C17856E7@Gateway>

Dear Ali,

 

Published material is defined, for patent purposes, as anything in the public marketplace which can be interpreted by a Posita (Person of Ordinary Skill in the Art) adequately to practice the invention.  So if it is behind a firewall and not for sale, it is not in the public marketplace.  But if it is in a scientific journal, in the IEEE, or even in Popular Science adequately described for a Posita, then it qualifies as published material for invalidating patents. 

 

HTH,

-Rich

 

Sincerely,

Rich Cooper

EnglishLogicKernel.com

Rich AT EnglishLogicKernel DOT com

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From: ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:ontolog-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ali SH
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:25 PM
To: edbark@xxxxxxxx; [ontolog-forum]
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Siri's (Apple) Patent Application

 

Hehe

On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ed Barkmeyer <edbark@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

I expect my son the lawyer to have a fat and busy life.


Not necessarily - http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/robot_invasion/2011/09/will_robots_steal_your_job_5.single.html

 

Just a while longer before legal ontologies and ML get good enough to complete the commodification (commoditization?) of this sector of the economy... P

 

More seriously,

 

[EB]

At some point, I will need to understand the legal relationship between
'prior art' and FTF.  It is absolutely necessary that publication of
prior art is a valid defense.  Otherwise the effect on academic work
could be catastrophic.

 

What is the status of a blog post? Or a google group for that matter? Do they constitute published material?
What if it is behind a paywall, or at least requires a login? I'm not really sure what counts either as adequate published material.

 

And seriously -- a digital assistant that is able to take input from some device, interpret it, connect it to an ontology and then orchestrate services over a network and send the results to an output device is a novel discovery? Siri's a great application that demonstrates how one can successfully deploy and commercialize various AI technologies, but the claims in this application are incredibly broad.

 

Ali

 

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