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| 314.1 | Try this | IECG::GREENWOOD | Tim - International Engineering | Wed May 20 1987 17:37 | 15 |
| From Livewire.
Patent Program Office seeking Digital inventors
The Patent Program Office is attempting to contact all employees
who have either filed U.S. patent applications or have issued
U.S. patents which are assigned to Digital.
In June, various organizations will honor these employees for
their contributions. Employees who have not been contacted
should send the following information to MILRAT::PATENT --
name, site, badge number, DTN, title of invention(s) as it
appears on the application or patent, and the name of the
vice president to whom they currently report.
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| 314.2 | Try Clay Satow | SLDA::OPP | | Fri Jun 05 1987 14:19 | 8 |
| Try contacting Clayton Satow. He is the patent assist person
for P&DS; I'm sure he can direct you. He should be reachable at
NUHAVN::PATENT or you might try looking him up on ELF.
Regards,
Greg
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| 314.3 | ENGINEERING GUIDE may help | AMUSED::HOWINGTON | | Fri Jul 24 1987 18:26 | 7 |
| You might try the ENGINEERING GUIDE, which can be borrowed from
a few DEC libraries (start with MLO Library 223-6231 or APO Library
289-1609). The GUIDE includes a chapter about patents and/or a
chapter about legal services (including patenting) available to
employees. Hope this helps.
john
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| 314.4 | the US Patent office needs YOU! | REGENT::MERRILL | Glyph it up! | Fri Jul 15 1988 13:26 | 12 |
| According to the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office the top three companies
receiving U.S.patents in 1987 were Japanese(!):
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Hitachi, and Toshiba. USA's General Electric
was fourth. [ IBM and AT&T must be next ??].
Nearly 47% (about 42,000) of the patents issued in the United States
last year went to foreign nationals. This is pretty shocking - get
out there you ingenious yankees and invent stuff!
Rick
Merrill
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| 314.5 | Used as Road Blocks | SEAPEN::PHIPPS | Mike @DTN 225-4959 | Fri Jul 15 1988 18:31 | 10 |
| > last year went to foreign nationals. This is pretty shocking - get
> out there you ingenious yankees and invent stuff!
It seems that you can patent a method or new use of an old
invention or process. Not all of the Japanese patents are that
ingenious. It makes it tough on on the true ingenuity because
they suddenly find they can't take their invention into a new
and lucrative area.
(Learned watching one of the PBS shows on Japan.)
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| 314.6 | Pay the devil his due. | WAV14::HICKS | Fan mail from some flounder? | Mon Jul 18 1988 12:47 | 23 |
| Re: .-1
I heard a report on NPR where some "authoritative group" (university
or something) did a survey on the quality of the patents being awarded.
The way they measured it was by researching how many times the
patent was later referenced by others trying for new patents, ie.
if a large number of people reference a particular patent later
it was high quality, truly novel, not just dressing up someone elses
technology.
Sadly, the research concluded that in patent quality by this measure,
again the Japanese were far-and-away the leaders, introducing patents
which recieved the most later references and which were truly
innovative and new. That old saw about how the Japanese "steal"
American (or other) technology (presumably because they are natural
mimics and not very inclined to be innovative), and then mass-produce
it before American companies because of cheap labor, is a lot of
racist bunk.
That kind of thinking has got to be rooted out before we can reassert
our competitiveness. There's no good excuse for the place to which
American technology has fallen. Leadership starts with a good
education. Need we say more?
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| 314.7 | Yes it's a rathole... | KUDZU::TIMEMGT | | Tue Jul 19 1988 13:01 | 12 |
| > That old saw about how the Japanese "steal"
> American (or other) technology (presumably because they are natural
> mimics and not very inclined to be innovative), and then mass-produce
> it before American companies because of cheap labor, is a lot of
> racist bunk.
I prefer to think of it as a lot of nationalistic bunk.
Cheers,
Karl Barth (borrowing an account)
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| 314.8 | Who needs Patents? | EDFVZ0::B_WOOD | Brian [>*<] Wood | Tue Aug 23 1988 14:52 | 4 |
| re: 314.4
Software is covered by Copyright...
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| 314.9 | software is patentable | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, 293-5358, VAX Architecture | Tue Aug 23 1988 17:18 | 9 |
| Software can also be covered by patents, and patents provide
some protection that copyrights do not.
If you think you have a new idea in some program you have written, it
may very well be patentable. DEC is paying monetary awards for
patents applied for and patents issued.
For more details, see your local patent attorneys. They have a
presentation on the patenting of software.
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