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Re: MSFT patents "PageUp/PageDown" function
From: "David Farber" <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:23:55 -0400
________________________________ From: Stagg_Newman () mckinsey com [mailto:Stagg_Newman () mckinsey com] Sent: Thu 8/28/2008 12:02 PM To: David Farber Subject: Re: [IP] Re: MSFT patents "PageUp/PageDown" function Does Mr. Riley have any fact base to support his assertion below? "It is important to recognize that as large companies age they become incapable of producing significant inventions. Most significant inventions come from independent and academic inventors" I would observe that many of the most important inventions and patents in modern telecommunications and even computing (e.g. the transistors, fundamental patents on digital communications, fiber optics, ...) came from Bell Labs. During that period "Ma Bell" was already many decades old. Fortunitously most of those patents were put in the public domain without charge for use. Stagg Newman Former Bell Labs Engineer Fomer Chief Technologist, FCC David Farber <dave () farber net> 08/27/2008 04:31 PM Please respond to dave () farber net To "ip" <ip () v2 listbox com> cc Subject [IP] Re: MSFT patents "PageUp/PageDown" function Begin forwarded message: From: "Ronald J Riley \(RJR-com\)" <rjr () rjriley com> Date: August 27, 2008 2:48:16 PM EDT To: <dave () farber net> Subject: RE: [IP] MSFT patents "PageUp/PageDown" function "....think this ranks up there with IBM getting the "paper or plastic?" patent reported last week. --rf" It is important to recognize that as large companies age they become incapable of producing significant inventions. Most significant inventions come from independent and academic inventors. They generally compensate for this by filling ever larger qualities of ever more insignificant or incremental inventions. It is quantity over quality. They do this in the vain hope that the shear quality will be a useful weapon against those who produce breakthrough inventions. It is not an effective tactic and that is why those larger aging but not yet fully mature companies formed a trade association known as the Coalition for Patent Fairness (aka the Piracy Coalition). The independent inventor community has been handing out attitude adjustments to Piracy Coalition members for some time. That is why they are howling for Patent Deform and whining about trolls. Ronald J. Riley, Speaking only on my own behalf. Affiliations: President - www.PIAUSA.org - RJR at PIAUSA.org Executive Director - www.InventorEd.org - RJR at InvEd.org Senior Fellow - www.patentPolicy.org President - Alliance for American Innovation Caretaker of Intellectual Property Creators on behalf of deceased founder Paul Heckel Washington, DC Direct (202) 318-1595 - 9 am to 9 pm EST. -----Original Message----- From: David Farber [mailto:dave () farber net] Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 8:48 AM To: ip Subject: [IP] MSFT patents "PageUp/PageDown" function Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Forno <rforno () infowarrior org> Date: August 21, 2008 9:47:55 PM EDT To: Infowarrior List <infowarrior () attrition org> Cc: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Subject: MSFT patents "PageUp/PageDown" function ....think this ranks up there with IBM getting the "paper or plastic?" patent reported last week. --rf United States Patent 7,415,666 Sellers , et al. August 19, 2008 Method and system for navigating paginated content in page-based increments Abstract A method and system in a document viewer for scrolling a substantially exact increment in a document, such as one page, regardless of whether the zoom is such that some, all or one page is currently being viewed. In one implementation, pressing a Page Down or Page Up keyboard key/ button allows a user to begin at any starting vertical location within a page, and navigate to that same location on the next or previous page. For example, if a user is viewing a page starting in a viewing area from the middle of that page and ending at the bottom, a Page Down command will cause the next page to be shown in the viewing area starting at the middle of the next page and ending at the bottom of the next page. Similar behavior occurs when there is more than one column of pages being displayed in a row. < - > 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=7,415,666.PN.&OS=PN/ 7,415 ,666&RS=PN/7,415,666 ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com ------------------------------------------- Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com +=========================================================+ This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose or take any action based on this message or any information herein. 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