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charles_brown1

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  1. <p>And now Calumet is gone, leaving some of their former customers and employees high and dry from a BK as well. Old news, but this thread needed updating.</p>
  2. <p>A judge just issued a final order invalidating THREE of Peter Wolf's patents...<br> ->> "Thus, the court finds that all three of the patents in suit are directed to patent-ineligible abstract ideas, and lack an inventive concept that would make them patent-eligible applications of those ideas."<br /><br />"V. CONCLUSION<br />In accordance with the foregoing, the Court GRANTS defendants’ motion for judgment on the pleadings.<br />IT IS SO ORDERED."<br /><br /><br />2:13-CV-09573</p>
  3. Thankfully, Michael Skelps stood up for what is fair and just. I read elsewhere on the net many statements made by Peter Wolf, where he stated something to the effect of "Once my website went live in 1999, everyone copied my ideas." Seriously? Such appalling hubris! As if everyone even HEARD of Wolf or his website, let alone seen it or "copied" it. What happened in the late 90's was the coincidence of internet access getting faster (critical for consuming image data) and getting more universally adopted in US households, combined with digital camera becoming more affordable, available, and becoming more capable of being used in event photography. The simultaneous occurrence of both of these essential ingredients is where the photographers I know got the "idea"... not from seeing Wolf's website. That Wolf takes personal credit for "inventing" the assemblage of concepts contained in the patents currently being challenged just goes to show how prideful his thinking about his self credited "revolution" of photography. A proverb states "Pride goeth before a fall." And I suspect that these feeble patents, once finally and fully challenged, will fall.
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