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November 10, 2005

First Patent Application to Claim a Fictional Storyline

Further to a policy of publishing patent applications eighteen months after filing, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is scheduled to publish history’s first “storyline patent” application today. The publication will be based on a utility patent application filed by Andrew Knight in November, 2003, the first such application to claim a fictional storyline.

Knight, a rocket engine inventor, registered patent agent, and graduate of MIT and Georgetown Law, will assert publication-based provisional patent rights against anyone whose activities may fall within the scope of his published claims, including all major motion picture manufacturers and distributors, book publishers and distributors, television studios and broadcasters, and movie theaters. According to the official Patent Office website, provisional rights “provide a patentee with the opportunity to obtain a reasonable royalty from a third party that infringes a published application claim provided actual notice is given to the third party by [the] applicant, and a patent issues from the application with a substantially identical claim.”

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April 30, 2005

iBOT

INDEPENDENCE® iBOT™ 3000 Mobility System, one of the most scientifically advanced devices of its kind ever brought to market. Power across sand, gravel, grass and other rough terrain…travel easily over curbs…rise to an "eye-level" position where you can reach new heights …climb up and down a flight of stairs -- you can do all this with your iBOT™ Mobility System. Created for people like yourself who want to be more active, this is the first powered mobility system that lets you go more places and do what you love - on your own and with little planning.

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February 17, 2005

Cyber Treasures For Sale

The history of computing is largely written on paper and plastic that gets thrown away. Technical papers, manuals, business plans, magnetic data storage tapes. Why save 'em?

Because one day you may be able to sell them for a million bucks. At least that's the theory behind Christie's February 23 auction, called The Origins of Cyberspace. The sale's 255 lots range from a 1617 text by John Napier, the inventor of the logarithm, to 14 pages of notes penciled in 1982 by J. Presper Eckert, co-creator of the world's first large-scale computer, known as the ENIAC. That sheaf of three-ring binder paper is estimated to fetch between $4,000 and $6,000.

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