{"id":201039,"date":"2016-04-21T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/?p=201039"},"modified":"2016-04-21T08:31:43","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T15:31:43","slug":"all-prior-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/04\/21\/all-prior-art\/","title":{"rendered":"All Prior Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Disclosed herein is a device for gauging medication dosage. The method may include displaying first, second and third navigation controls. A switch is connected in parallel to the relay contacts and is configured for providing a portion of the input power as supplemental load power to the output as a function of back EMF energy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We&#8217;ve had patents on the mind lately, and have been reading a fair few of them. If you read patent language long enough, though, it all starts to turn into word-salad. But with his <a href=\"http:\/\/allpriorart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">All Prior Art<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/alltheclaims.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">All the Claims<\/a> websites, [Alexander Reben] tosses this salad for real. He&#8217;s got computers parsing existing patents and randomly reassembling them.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than hoping that his algorithm comes up with the next great idea, [Alexander] is hoping to nip the truly trivial ones in the bud. Because <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Prior_art\" target=\"_blank\">prior art<\/a> &#8212; the sum of all pre-existing ideas &#8212; is enough to disqualify a patent, if an idea is so trivial that his algorithm could have come up with it, it&#8217;s sooner or later going to be off the table.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the results are insane, of course. And it seems to be producing a patent at a rate of about one per 10-15 seconds, so we&#8217;re guessing that it&#8217;ll take quite a few years for these cyber-monkeys to come up with the works of Shakespeare. But with bogus and over-broad patents filtering through the system every day, it&#8217;s not implausible that some day it&#8217;ll prove useful.<\/p>\n<p>[Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2084755-computer-generates-all-possible-ideas-to-beat-patent-trolls\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Scientist<\/a>, thanks Frank!]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Disclosed herein is a device for gauging medication dosage. The method may include displaying first, second and third navigation controls. A switch is connected in parallel to the relay contacts <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2016\/04\/21\/all-prior-art\/\" class=\"read-more\">&hellip;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62600045,"featured_media":201045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[422563133,146155,2283,25988182,18963],"class_list":["post-201039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-artificial-unintelligence","tag-lawyer","tag-legal","tag-not-a-hack","tag-patents"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/patent.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paBn4l-Qiz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62600045"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201039"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201119,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201039\/revisions\/201119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}