Weeeee!

Plaque for US patent 7650501

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11 responses to “Weeeee!”

  1. Perry E. Metzger

    There would appear to be prior art for all the listed claims, much of it rather famous.

  2. Yeah, but it’s a plaque, and it’s about the only kind of concrete recognition that Sun was handing out to anyone in its last five years.

    I have one, Bart has one, this is goodness.

    Lawyers, feh.

  3. C3

    woo hoo! Great result. Congratulations

  4. Perry: Prior art for *all* the listed claims? I’m surprised, if this is so (especially as some of the claims are decidedly esoteric).

    If you’d care to provide pointers to the prior art, I don’t mind doing the leg-work in checking it all out.

  5. alecm: You do? I admit, I didn’t know; would you like to share a pointer or the details?

  6. Just received notification that my plaque is in the FedEx pipeline – expected delivery, Monday :-).

  7. alecm: I can make your name out, but the flash saturates all the other bits (still, patent applications are given extreme makeovers by the lawyers, anyway; I didn’t initially recognise our own invention, on initial receipt of the first draft patent app).

    Still, I’m chuffed you have one, too. If you could summarise in a few words, which of your inventions it’s for, I’d really like to know… if Darren’s involved, I can only suspect it’s crypto-related…

    1. pluggable crypt.

  8. Nice one, squire – well done :-).

    My own rather lovely lump of wood and brushed aluminium – for the same patent co-invented with Bart – arrived today, after a bit of a hiatus at Stansted :-).

    1. Innit funny, how there’s three names on the patent but often only two get mentioned as inventors?

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