RE: Xybernaut collar patent

From Wear-Hard Mailing list Archive (WH) Maintained by R. Paul McCarty

You'll find that prior art only helps you when you appear in court. It
usually doesn't stop a patent from being granted as the patent examiners
have very limited time with each application. If you don't list all of =
the
prior art on your application, which you are supposed to, and the prior =
art
is not easily accessible then the patent has a good chance of going =
through.

I think it would be safe to say that quite a few of Xybernaut's patents
could be effectively challenged by prior art originating from UofT, MIT =
and
CMU alone.

-Tony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: =20
> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Bryan Hurley
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:14 AM
> To: Wearable Hardware Discussion List
> Subject: Xybernaut collar patent
>=20
>=20
> http://www.xybernaut.com/company/public/press/2002/press_relea
> se.asp?PRESSID=3D-295795761
>=20
http://web.media.mit.edu/~nitin/NomadicRadio/

Please say that qualifies as prior art.

This patent also sounds just like the functionality of the dog and the
daughter in the Inspector Gadget cartoon show from the USA in the 1980's

Does this mean I can't take a gumstix and a bob-II and put them in my =
collar
with an RS170 kit and make a wearable? - at least not for sale?

-Bryan Hurley

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