RE: Xybernaut collar patent

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

There was quite a bit of work done at Starlab on computing elements
embedded in a standard shirt collar.

Some of it is archived here:
http://web.archive.org/web/20010712203912/www.starlab.org/bits/intell_clothing/project.html
--Lucy

> 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: 
>> [mailto:] On Behalf Of Bryan Hurley
>> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2004 9:14 AM
>> To: Wearable Hardware Discussion List
>> Subject: Xybernaut collar patent
>>
>>
>> http://www.xybernaut.com/company/public/press/2002/press_relea
>> se.asp?PRESSID=-295795761
>>
> 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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