AN: Patent Avoidance Library Update

[Don Lancaster]

I've just completed some major improvements and upgrades to my Patent
Avoidance Library at http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp

Many free tutorials, ebooks, links, and such are now available for
download.

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: [email protected]

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[Active8]

I've just completed some major improvements and upgrades to my Patent
Avoidance Library at http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp

Many free tutorials, ebooks, links, and such are now available for
download.

This guy can do a 138 page pdf file that doesn't take forever to
download 'cause he knows from what he's doing.

 

[World Patentee Org.]

[email protected] said...
This guy can do a 138 page pdf file that doesn't take forever to
download 'cause he knows from what he's doing.

Or because he paid about $400 for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional ?

[email protected]
Spell the above domain name (the middle part) backward to reply.
Visit www.patentees.org to have your inventions listed for free !

 

[Active8]

[email protected] said...
This guy can do a 138 page pdf file that doesn't take forever to
download 'cause he knows from what he's doing.

Or because he paid about $400 for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional ?[/QUOTE]

Maybe. IT *is* a scan of past magazine articles and scanned spec
sheets seem to be the worst to download. Either way, Don knows more
about PDF format than anyone I know, having worked on the
developement of the stuff IIRC.

[email protected]
Spell the above domain name (the middle part) backward to reply.
Visit www.patentees.org to have your inventions listed for free !

WTF? Did your bot find the keyword "patent" in this group and prick
yer ears?

 

[Don Lancaster]

This guy can do a 138 page pdf file that doesn't take forever to
download 'cause he knows from what he's doing.

Actually, it does take forever to download, but by having your ISP
activate their byte range retrieval, all but your current page downloads
invisibly in the background.

Also, custom crafted raw PostScript properly done should run around 10K
per page for graphics+text.

Much more at http://www.tinaja.com/post01.asp

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: [email protected]

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[Don Lancaster]

Or because he paid about $400 for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional ?

[email protected]
Spell the above domain name (the middle part) backward to reply.
Visit www.patentees.org to have your inventions listed for free !

Nope. 5.0 Educational.

PostScript speedup secrets appear at http://www.tinaja.com/gurgrm01.asp
Also http://www.tinaja.com/post01.asp

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: [email protected]

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[Don Lancaster]

Or because he paid about $400 for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional ?

Maybe. IT *is* a scan of past magazine articles and scanned spec
sheets seem to be the worst to download. Either way, Don knows more
about PDF format than anyone I know, having worked on the
developement of the stuff IIRC.

[email protected]
Spell the above domain name (the middle part) backward to reply.
Visit www.patentees.org to have your inventions listed for free !

WTF? Did your bot find the keyword "patent" in this group and prick
yer ears?
[/QUOTE]

The secret to reprints is to use raw PostScript code and NEVER scan.
If you must scan, use OCR to convert as much as possible into text.
Then raw PostScript to convert as much as remains into graphic
primitives.
Finally, reduce the scanned areas to only those unconvertible otherwise.

Properly converted pages should run around 11K for text and graphics.

Much more on our website library pages.
We can also do this for you per http://www.tinaja.com/info01.asp

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: [email protected]

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[Active8]

This guy can do a 138 page pdf file that doesn't take forever to
download 'cause he knows from what he's doing.

Actually, it does take forever to download, but by having your ISP
activate their byte range retrieval, all but your current page downloads
invisibly in the background.[/QUOTE]

I went right to "save" as soon as the first page loaded to avoid
having to wait every time I scrolled down and it was still a snap.
Now that I look at it, I see it's 933kB, so my connection was
unusually fast, also.

Also, custom crafted raw PostScript properly done should run around 10K
per page for graphics+text.

Well, you're around 6.8k.

Much more at http://www.tinaja.com/post01.asp

Thanks for the links.

 

[Guy Macon]

Or because he paid about $400 for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional ?

If that's all it took, everyone would be doing it. Don's
"secret" is that he treats postscript as what it really is
- a programming language - and can make a handful of postscript
code lay out a page, fix a cup of coffee, sing, dance, and write
original poetry. When you start with that, generating good PFD
out of it isn't all that difficult.


I would have thought that there would be more comments on the
content of [ http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp ]. For most
individuals and small scale startups, patents really are a
big W.O.M.B.A.T. (Waste Of Money, Btains, And Time).

 

[Don Lancaster]

Actually, it does take forever to download, but by having your ISP
activate their byte range retrieval, all but your current page downloads
invisibly in the background.

I went right to "save" as soon as the first page loaded to avoid
having to wait every time I scrolled down and it was still a snap.
Now that I look at it, I see it's 933kB, so my connection was
unusually fast, also.

Also, custom crafted raw PostScript properly done should run around 10K
per page for graphics+text.

Well, you're around 6.8k.

Much more at http://www.tinaja.com/post01.asp

Thanks for the links.[/QUOTE]

The 6.8K per page was because I was sloppy.
By writing your own Distiller or by redistilling, you can cut this a lot
further.
Takes bunches of time, though.

--
Many thanks,

Don Lancaster
Synergetics 3860 West First Street Box 809 Thatcher, AZ 85552
voice: (928)428-4073 email: [email protected]

Please visit my GURU's LAIR web site at http://www.tinaja.com

 

[Bill Jones]

: On Mon, 09 Feb 2004 19:26:26 -0700, [email protected] said...
: >
: >
: > I've just completed some major improvements and upgrades to my Patent
: > Avoidance Library at http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp
: >
: > Many free tutorials, ebooks, links, and such are now available for
: > download.
: >
: >
: This guy can do a 138 page pdf file that doesn't take forever to
: download 'cause he knows from what he's doing.
: --
: Best Regards,
: Mike

I didn't have any problems downloading or opening the PDF's. I rarely do with
any PDF's though, being on a DSL connection.

It would be helpful if he would put the published and last updated dates on the
index entries for the tutorials and resources. Only after opening up the PDF
and scrolling down to the page footed are you able to see when the piece was
wriotten. Much of the material on the site seemed to be quite old and simply
rehashed time and again in the various postings. The site contents could be
whittled down significantly if the redundant materials were eliminated.

Frankly, I found the site, material and overall tone to be negative and
depressing reading. It certainly doesn't serve to motivate anyone to take up
the art and science of inventing, since, in the opinion of the author, everyone
is a thief and you WILL be cheated...

 

[Active8]

On Tue, 10 Feb 2004 08:13:03 -0800, Guy Macon

Or because he paid about $400 for Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional ?

If that's all it took, everyone would be doing it. Don's
"secret" is that he treats postscript as what it really is
- a programming language - and can make a handful of postscript
code lay out a page, fix a cup of coffee, sing, dance, and write
original poetry. When you start with that, generating good PFD
out of it isn't all that difficult.


I would have thought that there would be more comments on the
content of [ http://www.tinaja.com/patnt01.asp ]. For most
individuals and small scale startups, patents really are a
big W.O.M.B.A.T. (Waste Of Money, Btains, And Time).

Guess that's my fault, having started off replying to an alert
thread that sometimes never generates a response, by commenting on
just one of Don's talents.

I did notice that the first part of the content is something I've
read before, but I like having it in one big file. Others may not,
I don't necessarily agree with that other poster that the redundant
material should be eliminated. It would be better index it with
dates and other info. Don chooses to use ASP (gag) and that
technology is well suited enough to power his site with database
driven information, though *I'd* do it with PHP and look into XML
and SOAP.

As depressing as it may be, I'd rather hear the bad news before I
wasted any time with the patent office and that whole mess. Don
does present alternatives and short of some kind of major paradigm
shift, the facts are the facts we have to live with and that means
that you either need to be a big company to benefit from the rights
(One right. Right? The right to sue) bestowed with a patent or put
your invention in the public domain and compete.

I'd like to hear Jim Thompson's 2 cents on it all, though. He
recently mentioned that he was considering whether something he
came up with was worth patenting. He'd have to defend it from rip-
offs and that's what I'd like to hear about. See, the thing with
Jim is that he's well connected and may have a way to unload his
patent to one of the companies he's worked for and not have to deal
with the headaches. Or whatever. Lots of possibilities.

 

[maxfoo]

Frankly, I found the site, material and overall tone to be negative and
depressing reading. It certainly doesn't serve to motivate anyone to take up
the art and science of inventing, since, in the opinion of the author, everyone
is a thief and you WILL be cheated...

But it looks good on a resume...




Remove "HeadFromButt", before replying by email.

 

[Guy Macon]

As depressing as it may be, I'd rather hear the bad news before I
wasted any time with the patent office and that whole mess. Don
does present alternatives and short of some kind of major paradigm
shift, the facts are the facts we have to live with and that means
that you either need to be a big company to benefit from the rights
(One right. Right? The right to sue) bestowed with a patent or put
your invention in the public domain and compete.

I'd like to hear Jim Thompson's 2 cents on it all, though. He
recently mentioned that he was considering whether something he
came up with was worth patenting. He'd have to defend it from rip-
offs and that's what I'd like to hear about. See, the thing with
Jim is that he's well connected and may have a way to unload his
patent to one of the companies he's worked for and not have to deal
with the headaches. Or whatever. Lots of possibilities.

I have been thinking about this, and I think that there is a way
for me to make money from a patent that Don missed. I could get
a low-cost patent in one of the areas where I do a lot of
consulting work, and set a fixed price of $1 for unlimited rights
to it. That would make it uneconomical to break it, and I would
get my benefit out of getting more consulting work in the area
that the patent covers. Of course the quality of the invention
would have to be good; if it was a stupid idea, it could *hurt*
my consulting income.

 

[Active8]

On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 00:27:31 -0800, Guy Macon

I have been thinking about this, and I think that there is a way
for me to make money from a patent that Don missed. I could get
a low-cost patent in one of the areas where I do a lot of
consulting work, and set a fixed price of $1 for unlimited rights
to it. That would make it uneconomical to break it, and I would
get my benefit out of getting more consulting work in the area
that the patent covers. Of course the quality of the invention
would have to be good; if it was a stupid idea, it could *hurt*
my consulting income.

Then what would you do if I just went ahead and used your idea
without paying for it?

 

[Steve]

Don,

I've enjoyed your articles for years and I looked through tinaja
regarding patents. You may have missed the biggest problem of all - that
the USPTO has such a screwed up procedure that it is nearly impossible
for a pro se inventor to ever make it through the maze.

I am about to file a full civil rights lawsuit against the USPTO to
demand changes and damages for the way they are doing things. For a
glimpse into this big mess, you can take a look at my ready-to-file
rough draft of my lawsuit at <http://www.smart-life.net/USPTOsuit.html>.
Some of the story is pretty incredible.

I certainly regret ever filing the patent application, but now that the
USPTO has published it, I can't just get my proprietary technology back.
I must either win, or lose it to the public domain.

Any thoughts?

Steve Richfield
====================

 

[Robert Baer]

Don,

I've enjoyed your articles for years and I looked through tinaja
regarding patents. You may have missed the biggest problem of all - that
the USPTO has such a screwed up procedure that it is nearly impossible
for a pro se inventor to ever make it through the maze.

I am about to file a full civil rights lawsuit against the USPTO to
demand changes and damages for the way they are doing things. For a
glimpse into this big mess, you can take a look at my ready-to-file
rough draft of my lawsuit at <http://www.smart-life.net/USPTOsuit.html>.
Some of the story is pretty incredible.

I certainly regret ever filing the patent application, but now that the
USPTO has published it, I can't just get my proprietary technology back.
I must either win, or lose it to the public domain.

Any thoughts?

Steve Richfield
====================

First, it is possible for anyone to write, file and get a patent
granted.
The amount of research for investigating prior art may take one a
month or so.
The *CRAFTING* of claims is an art, especially if one wants acceptance
the first time around.
The semi-formal arguments for arguing for a claim "as-is" or
re-wording the claim without changing what is claimed is a process
spelled out in the Gazette.
Once granted, it is public but the inventor or assignee is the owner
until a BIG MONEY jerk company screws them over (remember the Golden
Rule: "He who has the Gold, Rules").
You cannot take back what you freely give, period.
Some things are best held as as a trade secret: behold the formula for
Coca Cola.
Make a decision and suffer *all* of the consequences, both good and
bad.
Quit bitching.

 

[Steve]

Robert,

You apparently missed the point.

You obviously haven't read my lawsuit draft. My problems have nothing to
do with the application, and everything to do with its handling by the
USPTO. Note from the suit that this is NOT my first patent application.
From your comments, I presume that you have NOT tried prosecuting a pro
se application in recent years. Wait until they hit YOU with a $665 fine
for something that is completely outside of your control, and waste one
of your 17 years in the process. To even question this, you must pay
$150, for which all you get a form letter that has obviously failed to
consider your basis for challenge.

Note that as explained in the suit, I had previously called EVERY SINGLE
patent attorney in Albuquerque, and that none of them would even look at
a pro se application. They all had essentially the same objection - that
now the procedures are SO onerous that even veteran attorneys get sucked
into them, so pro se applicants really don't even stand a chance once
the application has been filed, even with competent representation.

The point here is exactly the same point as my first posting on this
thread - that the problems with the USPTO have little to do with the
crafting of applications, and everything to do with a predatory
procedures that is designed to maximize the fines collected at the cost
of Constitutional protections. Of course, maximizing the fines from
patent attorneys makes it essentially impossible for us non-attorneys to
ever make it through this artificial maze.

Steve Richfield
==================

 

[Mike]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:23:06 GMT, Steve wrote:

....

I notice that in the prosecution history for your application, your
petition to revive your application was granted on February 4.

Where does that leave your current status?

-- Mike --

 

[Steve]

Mike,

Apparently, it is a typo, as the letter they sent on the same day says
"DENIED". I faxed a 2nd petition to revive in last Tuesday, that was
never posted, possibly because they thought that it had already been
granted!

Note that the page still states the status as "Abandoned", so the typo
doesn't seem to be working in my favor.

This leaves me in a REALLY strange limbo, as it may deny me the ability
to continue to argue my case.

My tentative plan was to abandon the FAX machine in favor of the
telephone, at least until my latest FAXed petition is posted.

Any thoughts regarding dealing with such typos?

Steve Richfield
================