Challenge

[ipm@en.com]

GYahwak1@aol.com wrote:> 
> why do you want to do this?

Why should WIPO issue 2 patents for the same invention?  I know...  we
can have one more inventor get a 3rd patent for the same invention and
reward all parties involved with a gold, silver, and bronze medal.

Why, you ask?? because it is fundamentally WRONG..

Sure, you could advise me as to how many forms to fill out, how much
time it would take, and how much money it would cost to seek
resolution.  If I had a million bucks and spare time on my hands, rest
assured I would seek resolution.  In reality, the only thing I can do
under limited resource is publicly post my findings and hope that it
raises awareness to the problem.

Patents are teachings to the public and remain the single most abundant
yet overlooked resource of scientific and technical knowledge.  Like a
tree that fell in a forest... it takes someone to hear, or rather read
patents in the first place to then potentially recognize that there
might be something wrong.  It is my choice to risk free speech in hope
that it may somehow help assure that the integrity of the patent system
is maintained rather than eroding.

If you spent enough energy to reply as to my motive.. why don't you
spend time to focus on the issue at hand and take a look at these 2 WIPO
patents to tell me if I am "over-reacting"?

I challenge you or anyone to tell me what distinguishes these two
independent inventions enough to be considered as two non-infringing
patents.  Maybe the system is fine and there will be an opportunity to
learn something from this issue one way or the other.
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ipm@en.com wrote:
> 
> I stumbled across 2 WIPO patents that look like the same invention.
> It is my belief that both inventions should
> be invalidated due to the following prior art.
> US5640193: Multimedia service access by reading marks on an object
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?patent_number=5640193
> 
> Does anyone agree with my findings?
> If so, what steps can be taken to further pursue this matter?
> What rules apply for dispute resolution through WIPO?
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> 
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=WO09803923A1
> WO9803923A1: WORLD WIDE WEB BAR CODE ACCESS SYSTEM
> Issued/Filed Dates: Jan. 29, 1998 / June 20, 1997
> Abstract:
> A bar code scanner (26) is coupled to a computer program (20) executing
> on a PC (10) that has access to the World Wide Web (WWW) of the Internet
> (14). A user swipes the bar code scanner (26) over a bar code (27)
> printed on printed material (29) to obtain additional information
> available on the WWW relating to information printed in a newspaper,
> book, magazine, catalog, or other printed material. The bar code
> contains a unique identifier called a resource link code. The resource
> link code scanned by the bar code scanner(26) is received by the
> computer program (20) and sent in a data packet over the Internet (14)
> to a resolution server (12, 22). The resolution server(22) translates
> (34) the resource link code into a Uniform Resource Locator (URL). The
> URL is then passed back to the computer program (20) executing in the
> user's PC (10). The computer program (20) passes the URL to a WWW
> browser program (16), which obtains the selected information over the
> WWW.
> 
> http://www.patents.ibm.com/details?pn=WO09840823A1
> WO9840823A1: METHOD FOR COLLECTING URLs FROM PRINTED MEDIA
> Issued/Filed Dates: Sept. 17, 1998 / March 4, 1998
> Abstract:
> A method for providing Universal Resource Locators (URLs) to potential
> users of the URLs (13) has the URLs (13) presented as machine-readable
> code in visible media, such as advertisements in newspapers (7) and
> magazines and in TV presentations. A machine reader, such as a bar code
> reader (9),connected to a computer (15) having a WEB browser
> application, is used to acquire the URL (13), and the acquired URL (13)
> is provided to the WEB browser application in the computer (15). In some
> cases the URL (13) is stored for future use, and in other cases the URL
> (13) is used immediately to direct the computer (15) or connect to the
> Internet Server storing the WEB page associated with the URL (13), and
> to download and display the WEB page, URLs (13) may be numeric code
> associated with URLs (13) in a table accessible on a Server on the
> Internet, printed or otherwise displayed bar code, magnetic ink, and
> other sorts of machine-readable code.