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Ralph Sac
03/02/10 14:02
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Nevada
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 		 #173743 - I don't understand why Patents?
Hi to all members:

When you look up a patent an example would be" Digital Hearing Aids". You are given list of all digital hearing aids with inventors names. In this example their are 50 patents. The full patent describes the invention in so much detail had to be written by a lawyer or a lawyer rewrote it. Then you are given 16 pages of the document with pictures of the invention. But this is the part I don't understand? Their no mention of Dsp chips or processor type or resistor vaules or cap. vaules, software source code either. And some of the idea's from inventors seem to cross over their idea's. You can only do so much with a digital hearing aid since its a very small device. Example mic, processor or dsp, two or three A/D converters, potenimeter, analog converter some type special speaker, switch, battery and case design. I don't even understand how their is 50 patents on digital hearing aids? You would think their could be know more then 10 because you can not do that much with the design. Also is the source code, processor type, or ic type hidden some where where only the patent office can see it. This is the most confusing part to me. Can some member please explain these questions that I wrote in this thread. Thanks for any idea's you may have on this subject.

Best regards,

Ralph Sac

List of 31 messages in thread
TopicAuthorDate
I don't understand why Patents?      Ralph Sac      03/02/10 14:02      
   it would be the ultimate stupidity      Erik Malund      03/02/10 14:36      
   Have you considered chronology?      Kai Klaas      03/02/10 14:39      
      Agents      Steve M. Taylor      03/02/10 16:45      
         Not obligatory      Andy Neil      03/03/10 08:48      
            But you beg to have one...      Kai Klaas      03/03/10 11:34      
   The idea      Jez Smith      03/02/10 15:36      
   Do you want to build a hearing aid?      Jez Smith      03/02/10 16:25      
    The purpose of the patent ...      Richard Erlacher      03/02/10 18:07      
      So what you are basically saying      Ralph Sac      03/02/10 18:44      
         No      Jez Smith      03/03/10 01:19      
         That's not an *Invention*      Andy Neil      03/03/10 08:43      
         Purpose of patent      Oliver Sedlacek      03/03/10 08:56      
            patents are a complete quagmire to suck in the unwary      Andy Neil      03/03/10 09:35      
               Never go to court to enforce a patent      Oliver Sedlacek      03/03/10 10:49      
            Maybe not so much      Richard Erlacher      03/04/10 10:47      
               Letters Patent      Steve M. Taylor      03/04/10 11:14      
   Source code in patents      Bruce Revor      03/03/10 00:27      
      In England      Jez Smith      03/03/10 01:30      
   Beware of trivialising what you don't understand!      Andy Neil      03/03/10 01:35      
   Think about it...      Andy Neil      03/03/10 08:28      
      Now how does this work      Ralph Sac      03/03/10 11:15      
         can-openers      Andy Neil      03/03/10 11:33      
         What often happens..      Jez Smith      03/03/10 13:39      
            What happens in U.S.A.      Ralph Sac      03/03/10 13:53      
               What happens in the USA ?      Bruce Revor      03/04/10 00:45      
                  Yep      Steve M. Taylor      03/04/10 02:49      
                  I should make it clearer      Ralph Sac      03/04/10 08:29      
   Invention v Implementation      Joseph Hebert      03/03/10 09:38      
      "Design Patents" - US-specific?      Andy Neil      03/03/10 11:38      
         Similar in Germany...      Kai Klaas      03/03/10 12:46      

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