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Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

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Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

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post #5

Wow, fuck Google. They really should consider re-adopting "Don't be evil" for PR proposes at the very least. (This isn't too say other companies don't pull the same shit; fuck them all just as much)

Has google ever filed a patent suit against someone other than in defense? What's more is they have purchased licenses to defend public use of formats.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/03/07/googl...

Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

#12
post #5

Wow, fuck Google. They really should consider re-adopting "Don't be evil" for PR proposes at the very least. (This isn't too say other companies don't pull the same shit; fuck them all just as much)

Has google ever filed a patent suit against someone other than in defense? What's more is they have purchased licenses to defend public use of formats. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/03/07/googl...

How is that relevant to an attempt to patent something that's in the public record?

Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

#13
post #6

I'm not understanding how Google and employees is claiming to be the original inventor here. Each inventor must sign an oath or declaration that includes certain statements required by law and the USPTO rules, including the statement that he or she believes himself or herself to be the original inventor or an original joint inventor of a claimed invention in the application and the statement that the application was…

Likely they are patenting their use of ANS rather than ANS itself. You can patent anything if you get specific enough. For things like video formats it actually works because it keeps others from creating decoders/encoders.

Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

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post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Has google ever filed a patent suit against someone other than in defense? What's more is they have purchased licenses to defend public use of formats. https://www.google.com/amp/s/techcrunch.com/2013/03/07/googl...

How is that relevant to an attempt to patent something that's in the public record?

Well, the us has moved to first to file. It could be they are just protecting it from being patented by someone else.

Also, until you see the patent app, you don't really know what they are patenting exactly.

Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

#16
post #5

Wow, fuck Google. They really should consider re-adopting "Don't be evil" for PR proposes at the very least. (This isn't too say other companies don't pull the same shit; fuck them all just as much)

There is a difference, other companies don't bother making moralistic claims about good and evil in their PR. Google did, so I think it is fair criticize it according to the standards it set itself up with.

Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

#17
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How is that relevant to an attempt to patent something that's in the public record?

Well, the us has moved to first to file. It could be they are just protecting it from being patented by someone else. Also, until you see the patent app, you don't really know what they are patenting exactly.

If there's prior art, what's the difference if a system is first to file or first to invent?

Re: Poland's oldest university denies Google's right to patent Polish coding concept

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post #6

I'm not understanding how Google and employees is claiming to be the original inventor here. Each inventor must sign an oath or declaration that includes certain statements required by law and the USPTO rules, including the statement that he or she believes himself or herself to be the original inventor or an original joint inventor of a claimed invention in the application and the statement that the application was…

Likely they are patenting their use of ANS rather than ANS itself. You can patent anything if you get specific enough. For things like video formats it actually works because it keeps others from creating decoders/encoders.

Applying it to video is one of the most obvious applications and it pretty much just slots in as a module, replacing huffman coding or arithmetic coding.
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