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I work in patents. If it wasn’t novel it wouldn’t be granted, believe me.

My experience with clients has led me to never trust lay people’s judgements on what is or is not novel.

Feel free to actually read the examiner’s comments in this patent application for an actually full understanding of he process

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HerrLewakaas@feddit.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Sir you are too level headed for the internet

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- Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It’s a daily curse.
  
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MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I work in patents. If it wasn’t novel it wouldn’t be granted, believe me.

I work in computer graphics software. My former employer preferred that engineers liberally apply for “defensive” patents because of how often people would get a patent for something we already did and then try to sue us for it. Plus we got a small cash bonus when our patents were approved. Through this process, I was granted six patents for my work there. It would be unwise to put something to text that could be used as evidence to invalidate the patents, so I’ll just say that my opinion on how low the bar is to getting software patents approved is definitely well-informed.

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- Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  If it was something you already did prior to filing and you could prove it then their case would be extremely flimsy, but I do understand where you come from.
  
  It really depends on jurisdiction, in the UK it’s not possible to even patent software. In Europe it I, but regulations are strict. The US patent law is a little bit wonky in this regard.
  
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  - MooseBoys@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    If it was something you already did prior to filing and you could prove it then their case would be extremely flimsy
    
    A brief search shows a variety of publications that seem to do what is described by the patent:
    
    …siggraph.org/…/neural-animation-layering-for-syn…
    
    advances.realtimerendering.com/…/index.html
    
    www.cs.ucdavis.edu/…/correlationMapsEG07.pdf
    
    docs.unity3d.com/Manual/AnimationLayers.htm
    
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    Mchugho@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    You’ve not even referenced the claims of the patent, which I actually what is protected. It’s already extremely likely the examiner has flagged these up and more and passed it as allowable after a thorough novelty search. Lots of things are sort of like other invention but what they actually do lies outside of the claim scope.
    
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