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Third time is the charm?Third time is the charm?Posted Mar 3, 2009 6:05 UTC (Tue) by PaulWay (✭ supporter ✭, #45600)Parent article: Third time is the charm?
BTW, patent 6,175,789 (in-dash computer) is invalidated by the empeg car (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empeg_Car). Microsoft patented the in-dash computer on September 10, 1999, and the EE Times article (linked on the Wikipedia page) shows Hugo holding a completed Mark I empeg car in May 2, 1999. Since the development had been quite public and going on for years earlier, I would say that at the very least Microsoft's patent is dead by more than four months.
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Third time is the charm? Posted Mar 3, 2009 6:49 UTC (Tue) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
the filing can happen up to two years after the invention. to qualify as prior art you would need to find something published dated prior to Sept 10 1997 for a patent filed Sept 10 1999 (which shouldn't be that hard to do)
Third time is the charm? Posted Mar 5, 2009 11:54 UTC (Thu) by nye (guest, #51576) [Link]
How about the system shown in this advert from 1993?
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