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Graver Tank >>>Thus, where a device is so far changed in principle from a patented article that it performs the same or a similar function in a substantially different way,
Funny, this also strongly supports functional claiming. Also, basically, this is just scope of enablement.
Westing House>>>The patent holder must further prove that there is “substantial identity” between the claimed invention and the accused device, “whether that identity be described by the terms, same principle, same modus operandi, or any other.”[3]
So, the author should have put the claims up. Basically, we are talking about reading on a functional element, but performing the function in a different way than is enabled by the patent.
Of course, Deener said that it didn’t matter how the functions of a method were performed that this would not get you out of infringement.
There is another modern case on scope of functional claiming. I can’t remember the name off the top of my head.
5.1
Funny, this also strongly supports functional claiming.
No it doesn’t. But hey why not just say so! Because you’ve got nothing else. Poverty supports lowering taxes on the rich! Hundreds of thousands of junk patents supports making it harder to invalidate them!
Preach it, shertbag!
Truly the stench of desperation is strong in the air. Next thing you know he’ll be screeching about a “witch hunt” and accusing other people being “the Drumpf” of the comment section. Because that’s how he operates, folks.
The patent maximalists: Worst. Attorneys. Ever.
5.1.1
Your post MM gave me a big belly laugh! After 13 years of you insulting me it has become humorous.
5.1.2
Could you particularize it a bit, though. I feel like after 13 years that you don’t know me and are just using the same stuff you use against everyone.
5.1.2.1
“ and are just using the same stuff you use against everyone.”
This has been noted as his “one-bucket” approach.
He does this so that he can be lazy and use anything on his script of ad hominem against anyone.
Note how he mindlessly accuses you of calling him the Trump of these boards, when you have never made a statement to that effect.
He does not care whether or not he is accurate in what he says. He merely wants to say something that he feels would denigrate you and not pertain to the merits of what you are saying.
This is the exact type of blight that has been going on into its 13th year now.
Many – and many easy solutions have been offered (some personally to Prof. Crouch).
Some (sAme ones) have posted that all should “enjoy Malcolm’s swagger” or look forward to Malcolm’s posts – and these are from those clearly aligned in anti-patent viewpoints.
Nothing from anyone else has ever sunk to the depths of what Malcolm routinely posts.
Not in content
Not in “style”
Not in any way, shape or form of blight.
Yet, we also have people like Ben who refuse to see a difference in how Malcolm posts and in how others combat what Malcolm posts.
As long as those like MaxDrei, Ned, and Ben clench tight their eyes, as long as the editors refuse to consistently and objectively apply any rules of posting etiquette whatsoever, the blight that has long reigned will continue to reign.
It should surprise no one that there will be those that refuse to let such propaganda go unchallenged.
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You can see in the dissent too of Westinghouse that this is a scope of enablement issue.
The only remaining question is that of the infringement, and that is readily disposed of. For it is conceded in the opinion of the majority of the court that, if the patent in suit is entitled to a broad construction as a pioneer, embodying a new mode of operation, not limited to the particular means described in the specification, then the defendant’s device is an adoption of the idea or principle of the Westinghouse patent with a mechanical equivalent or substitute for the auxiliary valve.
4.1
Night, from the discussion in Westinghouse it was clear that the inventor had not been the first to use train pipe air to close the brakes. All that he had invented was the particular mechanical arrangement for communicating train pipe air to the brake cylinder.
It was determined that there was no infringement because even though the accused device had a Valve that only operated under emergency conditions to allow train pipe air into the brake cylinder, it did so with a substantially different arrangement than the auxiliary valve of the patented invention. So it wasn’t really a scope of enablement issue so much that it was an issue that the way the accused infringers solved the problem was substantially different than the way the inventor solved the problem.
The way this would be handled in today’s litigation would be for the defendant to try the construe “auxiliary valve” in a way that there be no literal infringement.
4.1.1
Notice how the comment count flag on the thread to which these comments belong still has not been reset?
I’m curious as to whether this is the case based on the article’s author not wanting to see comments dismantling his viewpoint.
4.1.1.1
I’m curious as to whether this is the case
It’s the little green men, “anon.” They live in your fillings. Eat some cheetohs and they’ll get confused by the orange glow, thinking they are back on the home planet.
You know all this already.
4.1.1.1.1
4.1.2
Of course this is scope of enablement. They are saying that function way result but in reverse. So, you have a different “way”, but it is the same function and the same result. And the patent in suit did not enable one skilled in the art to make the “way” your accused device works.
Scope of enablement all the way. And strongly supports functional claiming.
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From the Westinghouse case that completely destroys the modern judicial activism. Here, clearly, they refer to functional claiming as something that is not enabled.
The difficulty we have found with this claim is this: That, if it be interpreted simply as a claim for the function of admitting air to the brake-cylinder directly from the train-pipe, it is open to the objection, held in several cases to be fatal, that the mere function of a machine cannot be patented.
555*555 This rule was clearly laid down in the leading case of Corning v. Burden, 15 How. 252, in which Mr. Justice Grier, delivering the opinion of the court, drew the distinction between such processes as were the result or effect of “chemical action, by the operation or application of some element or power of nature, or of one substance to another,” and the mere result of the operation of a machine, with regard to which he says:
“It is for the discovery or invention of some practicable method or means of producing a beneficial result or effect that a patent is granted, and not for the result or effect itself. It is when the term `process’ is used to represent the means or method of producing a result that it is patentable, and it will include all methods or means which are not effected by mechanism or mechanical combinations.
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I seemed to be blocked on the reverse doctrine of equivalents, but note that it is funny that this all affirms functional claiming. And this is all about an accused device functioning the same way, but performing the function in a different manner.
And, yet–our judicial activist author doesn’t properly frame the question because he doesn’t want to affirm the use of functional claiming.
This again is really just a scope of enablement argument.
2.1
Was looking for something else in the archives here and came across this:
409 posts on the topic of controlled posting – 15 posts on the experiment with using a real name.
It should be beyond clear that editorial controls are being wielded in order to try to arrive at a desired narrative.
Sadly, that narrative does not stand up to scrutiny and critical thinking, so the engagement of dialogue is made to suffer (and the promotion of the drive-by, non-dialogue internet-style “shout down” gains the upper hand.
At least superficially.
In an unthinking manner – and only to those who do not care to engage in a critically thinking manner.
2.1.1
It should be beyond clear that editorial controls are being wielded in order to try to arrive at a desired narrative.
OMG SOMEONE CALL THE THOUGHT POLICE!
Save your lectures for Big Jeans, you hypo critical shertbag.
2.1.1.1
“Just s h u t up” ..says the single biggest hypocrite of them all.
Thank you for making my point.
2.1.1.1.1
Right. Your “point” was that people on a blog are telling you to STFU or simply deleting your endless sniveling cr @p and that’s sooooooo unfair because … why?
Because you’re representing some poor underprivileged group that otherwise has no voice? Which group would that be? The wealthy patent attorneys who sit around and scriven functional claims based on what they predict Deep Pockets is going to be doing in 5, 10, 15 years?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Cry me a river you p@ thetic s ch lub.
2.1.1.1.1.1
LOL – that was most definitely not my point – as you and your spin misrepresenting things (again… still….) Is much closer to the blight that has plagued this site for into the 13th year now – well before I was around.
2.1.2
“It should be beyond clear that editorial controls are being wielded in order to try to arrive at a desired narrative.”
What are you getting at?
If it’s “beyond clear” why are you telling us?
If it’s “beyond clear”, what is your complaint?
2.1.2.1
Ben, “anon” is a ment@l defect.
He’s not trying to “get at” anything. He’s just acting out in response to the voices in his fillings.
Tomorrow he’ll be ranting again about “ivory towerism” and whatever else his r@ cist mi s 0gynist wingnert script tells him to say.
2.1.2.2
“What are you getting at?”
Glad you asked.
Of course, had you gone through the comments of the link, you would not have had to ask.
I will make it simple: eliminate (or reduce) blight through a set of rules, objectively and evenly enforced, and you won’t run into the problems of the blight and the perceptions that this site is peddling a pre-conceived notion of how patent law “should” be instead of a scholarly treatise (what that term once upon a time actually meant) of the state of patent law.
One could even stomach suggestions for changes to patent law were that inte11ectually honest course were to be taken.
2.1.2.2.1
“you won’t run into … the perceptions that this site is peddling a pre-conceived notion of how patent law “should” be instead of a scholarly treatise (what that term once upon a time actually meant) of the state of patent law.”
Has Crouch stated that he wants his site to be scholarly?
It seems many if not most patent law sites have a desired narrative. As long as such narratives are not hidden (and as you said, with patently-o, it is “beyond clear”), what’s the problem? Do you excoriate other sites that manipulate comment threads/policy to suit their owner’s opinions?
I doubt a site with more scholarly discourse would suit you anyways. You’d probably be banned for behavior like citing 400-comment-long threads and expecting others to figure out what exactly you were referencing. Be glad the low bar welcomes your style of conversation.
2.1.2.2.1.1
The short answer; yes, I excoriate sites that call for a “better ecosystem” and then do nothing to make it a better ecosystem.
You make too much of my calling out as if the actions I call out are somehow themselves perfectly acceptable.
Maybe you need to understand what an inte11ectaully honest dialogue entails. Your apparent lack of concern is itself concerning.
As to “Has Crouch stated that he wants his site to be scholarly? ” in many ways – yes. From the “byline” to the calls for improvements, even to the original set of “posting rules” (if you can find them in the archives).
It is one thing to have a desired narrative, and it is quite another to “edit” your way to that narrative under capricious and arbitrarily applied “rules” while pretending to want something else.
I doubt a site with more scholarly discourse would suit you anyways. You’d probably be banned for behavior like citing 400-comment-long threads and expecting others to figure out what exactly you were referencing. Be glad the low bar welcomes your style of conversation.”
LOL – your own comment fails for the provided reason. What exactly is “bad behavior” for drawing clear attention to what I posted? At once that you want to play the “if it’s clear game” and at the same time you want to play the “that’s not clear why you did that” game.
Low bar? You would hit the bar before I.
Further – you quite miss the point that ANY bar that exists should be applied in an objective and non-arbitrary manner. It is one thing to have NO bar for the likes of Malcolm, and then want a bar for others. Maybe you want to think about that for your next post.
2.1.2.2.1.1.1
your own comment fails
Twas ever thus. Bow down everyone. Humpty Billy is back and the medications are not working.
2.1.2.2.1.1.2
the likes of Malcolm
Right, the guy who’s been on top of pretty much all the biggest cases for the last ten years and who happens to not be a Re p u k k k e shertbag.
Truly sorry for your losses, “anon.” But they’re going to keep coming because you and your cohorts are f ing disgusting.
2.1.2.2.1.1.3
I’m not going to bother reply to your weasle worded nonsense other than to point out a clear factual inaccuracy:
“It is one thing to have NO bar for the likes of Malcolm, and then want a bar for others.”
I have repeatedly seen vile rants of Malcom deleted. Your suggestion of “No Bar” is incorrect.
…
For all the vile ones you see deleted, he CONTINUES TO POST the same style of vile ones.
And the range of vile includes others that no one else would get away with.
Part of the 406 comment thread included items such as pure copy and paste of what Malcolm posted NOT making it through the screens.
Ben – you continue to defend the indefensible and you do so without regard to all of the points previously put on the table.
You continue to be plain wrong in your comments about me.
And you wonder why you gate tagged as a “Malcolm sycophant”….?
2.1.2.2.1.2
Do you excoriate other sites that manipulate comment threads/policy to suit their owner’s opinions?
Of course he doesn’t but will never ever admit that.
2.1.2.2.1.2.1
Of course your characterization is not correct (as I have already provided a direct answer in easy to understand plain English).
2.2
Night, one of the things I find objectionable about the article was that it suggested that improvement alone was sufficient. That was not the holding of the court that emphasized that the way the accused device accomplished the same result was substantially different. In other words, the poppet valve of the accused device was determined not to be an auxiliary valve of the claimed invention. The fact that it operated better, in fact, far better, than the claimed invention was an added factor, but it was not necessary to the decision.
2.2.1
Do you agree this is a scope of enablement argument with functional claiming?
What was that modern CAFC case about this?
2.2.1.1
Night, see post 7.3.2 in the Guest Post thread for a full response.
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… and the patent attorneys breath a sigh of relief.
Graver Tank >>>Thus, where a device is so far changed in principle from a patented article that it performs the same or a similar function in a substantially different way,
Funny, this also strongly supports functional claiming. Also, basically, this is just scope of enablement.
Westing House>>>The patent holder must further prove that there is “substantial identity” between the claimed invention and the accused device, “whether that identity be described by the terms, same principle, same modus operandi, or any other.”[3]
So, the author should have put the claims up. Basically, we are talking about reading on a functional element, but performing the function in a different way than is enabled by the patent.
Of course, Deener said that it didn’t matter how the functions of a method were performed that this would not get you out of infringement.
There is another modern case on scope of functional claiming. I can’t remember the name off the top of my head.
Funny, this also strongly supports functional claiming.
No it doesn’t. But hey why not just say so! Because you’ve got nothing else. Poverty supports lowering taxes on the rich! Hundreds of thousands of junk patents supports making it harder to invalidate them!
Preach it, shertbag!
Truly the stench of desperation is strong in the air. Next thing you know he’ll be screeching about a “witch hunt” and accusing other people being “the Drumpf” of the comment section. Because that’s how he operates, folks.
The patent maximalists: Worst. Attorneys. Ever.
Your post MM gave me a big belly laugh! After 13 years of you insulting me it has become humorous.
Could you particularize it a bit, though. I feel like after 13 years that you don’t know me and are just using the same stuff you use against everyone.
“ and are just using the same stuff you use against everyone.”
This has been noted as his “one-bucket” approach.
He does this so that he can be lazy and use anything on his script of ad hominem against anyone.
Note how he mindlessly accuses you of calling him the Trump of these boards, when you have never made a statement to that effect.
He does not care whether or not he is accurate in what he says. He merely wants to say something that he feels would denigrate you and not pertain to the merits of what you are saying.
This is the exact type of blight that has been going on into its 13th year now.
Many – and many easy solutions have been offered (some personally to Prof. Crouch).
Some (sAme ones) have posted that all should “enjoy Malcolm’s swagger” or look forward to Malcolm’s posts – and these are from those clearly aligned in anti-patent viewpoints.
Nothing from anyone else has ever sunk to the depths of what Malcolm routinely posts.
Not in content
Not in “style”
Not in any way, shape or form of blight.
Yet, we also have people like Ben who refuse to see a difference in how Malcolm posts and in how others combat what Malcolm posts.
As long as those like MaxDrei, Ned, and Ben clench tight their eyes, as long as the editors refuse to consistently and objectively apply any rules of posting etiquette whatsoever, the blight that has long reigned will continue to reign.
It should surprise no one that there will be those that refuse to let such propaganda go unchallenged.
You can see in the dissent too of Westinghouse that this is a scope of enablement issue.
The only remaining question is that of the infringement, and that is readily disposed of. For it is conceded in the opinion of the majority of the court that, if the patent in suit is entitled to a broad construction as a pioneer, embodying a new mode of operation, not limited to the particular means described in the specification, then the defendant’s device is an adoption of the idea or principle of the Westinghouse patent with a mechanical equivalent or substitute for the auxiliary valve.
Night, from the discussion in Westinghouse it was clear that the inventor had not been the first to use train pipe air to close the brakes. All that he had invented was the particular mechanical arrangement for communicating train pipe air to the brake cylinder.
It was determined that there was no infringement because even though the accused device had a Valve that only operated under emergency conditions to allow train pipe air into the brake cylinder, it did so with a substantially different arrangement than the auxiliary valve of the patented invention. So it wasn’t really a scope of enablement issue so much that it was an issue that the way the accused infringers solved the problem was substantially different than the way the inventor solved the problem.
The way this would be handled in today’s litigation would be for the defendant to try the construe “auxiliary valve” in a way that there be no literal infringement.
Notice how the comment count flag on the thread to which these comments belong still has not been reset?
I’m curious as to whether this is the case based on the article’s author not wanting to see comments dismantling his viewpoint.
I’m curious as to whether this is the case
It’s the little green men, “anon.” They live in your fillings. Eat some cheetohs and they’ll get confused by the orange glow, thinking they are back on the home planet.
You know all this already.
Of course this is scope of enablement. They are saying that function way result but in reverse. So, you have a different “way”, but it is the same function and the same result. And the patent in suit did not enable one skilled in the art to make the “way” your accused device works.
Scope of enablement all the way. And strongly supports functional claiming.
From the Westinghouse case that completely destroys the modern judicial activism. Here, clearly, they refer to functional claiming as something that is not enabled.
The difficulty we have found with this claim is this: That, if it be interpreted simply as a claim for the function of admitting air to the brake-cylinder directly from the train-pipe, it is open to the objection, held in several cases to be fatal, that the mere function of a machine cannot be patented.
555*555 This rule was clearly laid down in the leading case of Corning v. Burden, 15 How. 252, in which Mr. Justice Grier, delivering the opinion of the court, drew the distinction between such processes as were the result or effect of “chemical action, by the operation or application of some element or power of nature, or of one substance to another,” and the mere result of the operation of a machine, with regard to which he says:
“It is for the discovery or invention of some practicable method or means of producing a beneficial result or effect that a patent is granted, and not for the result or effect itself. It is when the term `process’ is used to represent the means or method of producing a result that it is patentable, and it will include all methods or means which are not effected by mechanism or mechanical combinations.
I seemed to be blocked on the reverse doctrine of equivalents, but note that it is funny that this all affirms functional claiming. And this is all about an accused device functioning the same way, but performing the function in a different manner.
And, yet–our judicial activist author doesn’t properly frame the question because he doesn’t want to affirm the use of functional claiming.
This again is really just a scope of enablement argument.
Was looking for something else in the archives here and came across this:
link to patentlyo.com
409 posts on the topic of controlled posting – 15 posts on the experiment with using a real name.
It should be beyond clear that editorial controls are being wielded in order to try to arrive at a desired narrative.
Sadly, that narrative does not stand up to scrutiny and critical thinking, so the engagement of dialogue is made to suffer (and the promotion of the drive-by, non-dialogue internet-style “shout down” gains the upper hand.
At least superficially.
In an unthinking manner – and only to those who do not care to engage in a critically thinking manner.
It should be beyond clear that editorial controls are being wielded in order to try to arrive at a desired narrative.
OMG SOMEONE CALL THE THOUGHT POLICE!
Save your lectures for Big Jeans, you hypo critical shertbag.
“Just s h u t up” ..says the single biggest hypocrite of them all.
Thank you for making my point.
Right. Your “point” was that people on a blog are telling you to STFU or simply deleting your endless sniveling cr @p and that’s sooooooo unfair because … why?
Because you’re representing some poor underprivileged group that otherwise has no voice? Which group would that be? The wealthy patent attorneys who sit around and scriven functional claims based on what they predict Deep Pockets is going to be doing in 5, 10, 15 years?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Cry me a river you p@ thetic s ch lub.
LOL – that was most definitely not my point – as you and your spin misrepresenting things (again… still….) Is much closer to the blight that has plagued this site for into the 13th year now – well before I was around.
“It should be beyond clear that editorial controls are being wielded in order to try to arrive at a desired narrative.”
What are you getting at?
If it’s “beyond clear” why are you telling us?
If it’s “beyond clear”, what is your complaint?
Ben, “anon” is a ment@l defect.
He’s not trying to “get at” anything. He’s just acting out in response to the voices in his fillings.
Tomorrow he’ll be ranting again about “ivory towerism” and whatever else his r@ cist mi s 0gynist wingnert script tells him to say.
“What are you getting at?”
Glad you asked.
Of course, had you gone through the comments of the link, you would not have had to ask.
I will make it simple: eliminate (or reduce) blight through a set of rules, objectively and evenly enforced, and you won’t run into the problems of the blight and the perceptions that this site is peddling a pre-conceived notion of how patent law “should” be instead of a scholarly treatise (what that term once upon a time actually meant) of the state of patent law.
One could even stomach suggestions for changes to patent law were that inte11ectually honest course were to be taken.
“you won’t run into … the perceptions that this site is peddling a pre-conceived notion of how patent law “should” be instead of a scholarly treatise (what that term once upon a time actually meant) of the state of patent law.”
Has Crouch stated that he wants his site to be scholarly?
It seems many if not most patent law sites have a desired narrative. As long as such narratives are not hidden (and as you said, with patently-o, it is “beyond clear”), what’s the problem? Do you excoriate other sites that manipulate comment threads/policy to suit their owner’s opinions?
I doubt a site with more scholarly discourse would suit you anyways. You’d probably be banned for behavior like citing 400-comment-long threads and expecting others to figure out what exactly you were referencing. Be glad the low bar welcomes your style of conversation.
The short answer; yes, I excoriate sites that call for a “better ecosystem” and then do nothing to make it a better ecosystem.
You make too much of my calling out as if the actions I call out are somehow themselves perfectly acceptable.
Maybe you need to understand what an inte11ectaully honest dialogue entails. Your apparent lack of concern is itself concerning.
As to “Has Crouch stated that he wants his site to be scholarly? ” in many ways – yes. From the “byline” to the calls for improvements, even to the original set of “posting rules” (if you can find them in the archives).
It is one thing to have a desired narrative, and it is quite another to “edit” your way to that narrative under capricious and arbitrarily applied “rules” while pretending to want something else.
I doubt a site with more scholarly discourse would suit you anyways. You’d probably be banned for behavior like citing 400-comment-long threads and expecting others to figure out what exactly you were referencing. Be glad the low bar welcomes your style of conversation.”
LOL – your own comment fails for the provided reason. What exactly is “bad behavior” for drawing clear attention to what I posted? At once that you want to play the “if it’s clear game” and at the same time you want to play the “that’s not clear why you did that” game.
Low bar? You would hit the bar before I.
Further – you quite miss the point that ANY bar that exists should be applied in an objective and non-arbitrary manner. It is one thing to have NO bar for the likes of Malcolm, and then want a bar for others. Maybe you want to think about that for your next post.
your own comment fails
Twas ever thus. Bow down everyone. Humpty Billy is back and the medications are not working.
the likes of Malcolm
Right, the guy who’s been on top of pretty much all the biggest cases for the last ten years and who happens to not be a Re p u k k k e shertbag.
Truly sorry for your losses, “anon.” But they’re going to keep coming because you and your cohorts are f ing disgusting.
I’m not going to bother reply to your weasle worded nonsense other than to point out a clear factual inaccuracy:
“It is one thing to have NO bar for the likes of Malcolm, and then want a bar for others.”
I have repeatedly seen vile rants of Malcom deleted. Your suggestion of “No Bar” is incorrect.
For all the vile ones you see deleted, he CONTINUES TO POST the same style of vile ones.
And the range of vile includes others that no one else would get away with.
Part of the 406 comment thread included items such as pure copy and paste of what Malcolm posted NOT making it through the screens.
Ben – you continue to defend the indefensible and you do so without regard to all of the points previously put on the table.
You continue to be plain wrong in your comments about me.
And you wonder why you gate tagged as a “Malcolm sycophant”….?
Do you excoriate other sites that manipulate comment threads/policy to suit their owner’s opinions?
Of course he doesn’t but will never ever admit that.
Of course your characterization is not correct (as I have already provided a direct answer in easy to understand plain English).
Night, one of the things I find objectionable about the article was that it suggested that improvement alone was sufficient. That was not the holding of the court that emphasized that the way the accused device accomplished the same result was substantially different. In other words, the poppet valve of the accused device was determined not to be an auxiliary valve of the claimed invention. The fact that it operated better, in fact, far better, than the claimed invention was an added factor, but it was not necessary to the decision.
Do you agree this is a scope of enablement argument with functional claiming?
What was that modern CAFC case about this?
Night, see post 7.3.2 in the Guest Post thread for a full response.
… and the patent attorneys breath a sigh of relief.
Of course.
This is a huge relief.
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