[LINK] Greening ICT

[Chris Maltby]

On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 03:49:47AM +1100, Tom Koltai wrote:
> That's intereseting - I have Prior Art Circa 1998.
> We used to call them PIAB's - Pop in a box.
> Distributed them to remote towns where we didnt want the locals fiddling
> with the pop.

Besides the liklihood of prior art, there's also the problem of
obviousness. An invention needs to be non-obvious to survive a
challenge. The US PTO examiners have an approach borne of chronic
underresourcing - patent everything, let the courts sort it out.

Chris