[TowerTalk] Hi-Z Antenna Stuff

[Art Trampler]

I expect this thread is going to receive a, "Can we get back to towers" reminder soon enough (and I have no beef with that), but in considering patents in general, remember that companies are successfully patenting genes, unmodified, for various treatments. 
 
Having successfully discovered a gene the expression of which is desirable, the USPTO has issued patents on the use of the gene in therapies even though "nothing" was created, but really, a use discovered and verified.

--- On Tue, 2/7/12, Jack/W6NF <vhfplus at gmail.com> wrote:


From: Jack/W6NF <vhfplus at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Hi-Z Antenna Stuff
To: towertalk at contesting.com
Date: Tuesday, February 7, 2012, 4:06 PM


On 2/7/2012 12:29 PM, Jim Lux wrote:
> On 2/7/12 9:33 AM, Jack/W6NF wrote:
>
>> What the hell did Rausch patent that was so unique and different that a
>> patent was possible? Or can you patent something whereby everything is
>> well known but you hold you head just so in the assembly process?
>
> Why, yes, that is EXACTLY what patents are for.  You take things that
> are ordinary and commonplace and combine them in a new and novel way to
> produce something of use.
>
> How it is produced could also be part of the patent (that's a "method"
> patent).
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Okay...if the technical aspects of a product is well-known, and not 
patentable in and of itself, then only the specifics of production and 
packaging are part of the protection of the patent. I've heard about a 
pharmaceutical company that attempted to patent a medication on the 
basis of alterations in capsule shape and color. I don't believe that 
got very far.

If the "method" is duplicated that's one thing but if the packaging and 
assembly of well-known circuitry is substantially different then what is 
the basis for an infringement claim?

There are quite a few of us interested in the answer.


-- 
Jack, W6NF
Silver Springs, NV
DM09ji

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