YogaGlo Update

> Below are a few visual examples of what our patent protects. Note, there are many other ways companies and teachers can create yoga classes that do not look anything like YogaGlo’s classes:

I discounted every single word they said after seeing the pictures! I cannot believe any sane person, much less a patent official, can believe that those ought to be patentable.

What came to mind was a Sanskrit proverb many Indians would be aware of: "Vinaash Kale, Vipreet Buddhi", which roughly translates to, "When the hour of destruction is near, the brain abandons all logic."

I hope (against hope) the end of the patent system as we know it is nigh :)

Does prior art mean anything with the US First to File system?

Is anyone looking through old DVD or VHS videos of Yoga lessons, or through Youtube (or similar) video sites?

This strikes me as another reason why DMCA is bad. Backing up an old VHS tape might require breaking the macrovision copy protection. Yet it's important to keep this old stuff around because it might be useful in cases like this.

I go to any conference which is being filmed and what does the setup look like?

-- Aisle down the center, speaker at the front ("a line of sight corridor between the rear area of a class and the instructor in the front of the class")

-- Camera at the rear in the middle of the aisle, providing clearest, centered view of the speaker ("an image capturing device located in the rear area with an unobstructed view of the instructor, to provide a participatory view through the line of sight corridor")

-- Everyone seated facing the speaker (duh) ("students in a class, facing the instructor, distributed across the classroom between the instructor position and the image capturing device wherein the students do not block the corridor.")

So they just took a standard filming technique and added 'yoga' to it.

Where's the invention?

"Setting the record straight" has only emboldened my opinion that this patent is pure baloney and YogaGlo is a disgrace to the yoga community AS WELL AS the business community. I hope this patent goes down in flames and YogaGlo is put out of business in the process