Posts by publikvu

Prior art?

I find this story exciting, baffeling and scary in equal measure - here is why:

Exciting:

This type of stuff really offers a glimpse of the next 7 year cycle of major change (along with pervasive (or invasive!) advetising, AR and some other stuff) that is kind of due this year - i'll explain further; 1995 - 2003 web 0.1, 2003 - 2010 web 2.0 (I could give many more examples but for the sake of getting to the point I won't). Minority Report living is just around the corner.

Baffeling:

From my understanding of patents which is greater then your average person but by no means expert surely there is heaps of 'prior art' on these types patents meaning that Microsoft will just be applying for design patents and it will not block others from making such things? This is my question - can anyone answer this question for me??

Scary:

About 9 years ago I 'invented' a concept called PublikView which if you were to look at the blueprints/ mock-ups and business plan I did you would most likely notice (as many have) that my idea was very similar to MySpace and Facebook (Features, UI, Brand etc etc) - so to sum up: I thought of it first! (yes I do cry myself to sleep every night) - anyway I'm not here to talk about the fish that got away so I will continue... when I was trying to get investment for the concept at the time I would tell investors (and anyone that would listen for that matter) that big change happened in 7 year cycles and the next big one was due and it was going to be something that later got coined as web 2.0. At the time these people (especially my mum!) would say "don't worry if you miss this one you can invent stuff for the next big change" and I would say back " I don't want any part of that stuff because it will be about embedding chips into peoples heads etc" I still sort of feal the same way now however I have matured a bit now and I can see the huge benifits of such technolgy (especially for the disabled) but there is still a small part of it I just find scary... thoughts?

Thanks for reading my massive essay which just started out as me wanting to know if these patents will stop other people/companys developing such important computer human interfaces - didn't Palo Alto own the patents to the mouse but other companys made mouses??