Posts by jmjjg

Nissan rolls out drink-proof cars

A new technology can already be used to circumvent Nissan's technology

It's called gloves.

Now, everybody can use cars with that Nissan technology while being totally drunk. Gear stick sensor will only have contact with gloves, and gloves don't sweat alcohol.

Granted, you will still get the sensors on the seats yelling at you.

Microsoft puts a figure on open source 'patent infringements'

So they won't list the patents, right ?

So it seems that Microsoft will never make public the list of "infringed" patents ( http://legalpad.blogs.fortune.com/2007/05/13/msft-linux-free-software-infringe-235-of-our-patents/ ).

Let's just do it ourselves:

* Linux GUI: 65 patents

- Virtual desktop manager ( http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%252Fnetahtml%252FPTO%252Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=7010755.PN.&OS=PN/7010755 )

* E-mail programs: 15 patents

- Technique which utilizes a probabilistic classifier to detect "junk" e-mail by automatically updating a training and re-training the classifier based on the updated training set ( http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6161130.PN.&OS=PN/6161130&RS=PN/6161130 )

* Other assorted FOSS programs: 68 patents

- Administrative security systems and methods ( http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6775781.PN.&OS=PN/6775781&RS=PN/6775781 )

I know there are only three here, but if people would start doing that on a wiki or something, ...

1°) list possible patents infringements

2°) then research for prior art

3°) ?

4°) success