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1. Perry E. Metzger | 2010/02/19 at 16:30 | Permalink

   There would appear to be prior art for all the listed claims, much of it rather famous.

2. alecm | 2010/02/19 at 16:40 | Permalink

   Yeah, but it’s a plaque, and it’s about the only kind of concrete recognition that Sun was handing out to anyone in its last five years.

   I have one, Bart has one, this is goodness.

   Lawyers, feh.

3. C3 | 2010/02/19 at 17:47 | Permalink

   woo hoo! Great result. Congratulations

4. Dave Walker | 2010/02/23 at 22:35 | Permalink

   Perry: Prior art for *all* the listed claims? I’m surprised, if this is so (especially as some of the claims are decidedly esoteric).

   If you’d care to provide pointers to the prior art, I don’t mind doing the leg-work in checking it all out.

5. Dave Walker | 2010/02/24 at 23:15 | Permalink

   alecm: You do? I admit, I didn’t know; would you like to share a pointer or the details?

6. Dave Walker | 2010/02/24 at 23:16 | Permalink

   Just received notification that my plaque is in the FedEx pipeline – expected delivery, Monday .

7. alecm | 2010/02/24 at 23:20 | Permalink

   @dave http://twitpic.com/iu7oj

8. Dave Walker | 2010/02/25 at 21:53 | Permalink

   alecm: I can make your name out, but the flash saturates all the other bits (still, patent applications are given extreme makeovers by the lawyers, anyway; I didn’t initially recognise our own invention, on initial receipt of the first draft patent app).

   Still, I’m chuffed you have one, too. If you could summarise in a few words, which of your inventions it’s for, I’d really like to know… if Darren’s involved, I can only suspect it’s crypto-related…

9. alecm | 2010/03/01 at 09:18 | Permalink

   pluggable crypt.

10. Dave Walker | 2010/03/11 at 00:14 | Permalink

    Nice one, squire – well done .

    My own rather lovely lump of wood and brushed aluminium – for the same patent co-invented with Bart – arrived today, after a bit of a hiatus at Stansted .

11. alecm | 2010/03/11 at 07:59 | Permalink

    Innit funny, how there’s three names on the patent but often only two get mentioned as inventors?

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