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VueStar vs EG2401
By arzhou | June 6, 2008
After reading on the blogosphere quite a bit on the entire VueStar case ( and sort of thinking how silly it sounds). I am not going to give any in-depth analysis and make comments (oh wait I sort of did) or paraphrase what has happened. Enough has been said on hardwarezone and a whole host of other blogs. When I first heard about this, the first thing that came to mind was how this was so related to EG2401- Engineering Professionalism which I took last semester. There was a part basically covered the basics of patents, trademarks etc etc.
So…. lets apply what I learn in EG2401 to this case. According to my notes (ok my cheat sheet), a patent in order to be approved must first satisfy the following conditions:
1) Must be new/novel – Basically it cannot be made know in anyway, must be kept a trade secret at all times until applying for patent.
2) Inventive Step – Improvement over what is current
3) Industrial Application – must be practical
Based on what i see, the VueStar might be able to achieve points 2 and 3 from their patent but since I am no industry expert I shall withhold any judgment on that. The main issue is with point 1, where as show on the following site, there could possibly be prior publications on things which are similar to VueStar’s claims which in essence, point 1 should fail since its no longer new or novel.
So there, this should score me close to full marks on the patent question in the EG2401 exam if there was ever a question based on this.
Answer to this question should it be in the exams: Link
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